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1. That witty American writer, speaker, world traveler, and conversationalist named Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain) is often given credit for things he didn't say. Which of the quotations listed can NOT be found in his writings and therefore may be a false attribution about truth?
2. What infinitely quotable British Prime Minister is rumored to have said, "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened"?
3. A good bet if you're looking for a quotation is a controversial Irish writer who created a character who calls himself Ernest but is really named Jack (he thinks). Who wrote this line spoken by Algernon to Jack: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple"?
4. What British writer who goes by initials has a magically masterful character warn his student, "The truth.... It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution"?
5. Which writer, probably while contemplating in a room of her own, reflected, "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people"?
6. What feminist icon who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 once elaborated on a New Testament verse by observing, "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off"?
7. What revered father of India who advocated nonviolent social change reassured us, "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won"?
8. Who created the investigator who shook his head at Dr. Watson and lamented, "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"?
9. What Roman Catholic short story writer from Milledgeville, Georgia, known for grotesque themes and eccentric characters, bluntly wrote in a letter to a friend, "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it"?
10. What cubist painter opined - originally in Spanish - "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand"?
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