Answers to: Do you know your quotations?
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(From Page 59.)
YOU will probably be surprised to find how few you really knew. Congratulate yourself if you scored two or more. No need though, to give up using quotes.
Origins now are sometimes obscure but in their more commonly used form they have become part of our language.
1. An ill-favoured (not poor). 2. Paint (not gild). The full quotation
reads, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. 3. Destruction (not fall). Again, the full quotation runs: Pride goeth before de struction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. 4. Double (not doubly). 5. Woods (not fields). 6. With (not by). 7. Joined (not meet). The quotation ends: . . . then was the tug of war. 8. Place (not point). 9. Cite (not quote). 10. At . . . heart (not to . . . core). Full quotation: A goodly apple rotten at the heart. 11. Food (not cud). The quotation goes on: ... of sweet and bitter fancy. 12. Toil, tears and sweat; the correct order is often mixed.