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1. Dorothy Parker's legendarily acidic wit found ample expression in her "Constant Reader" column in the "New Yorker" magazine. How did she famously review the whimsical and baby talk laden "House on Pooh Corner"?
2. What denizen of the Okeefenokee Swamp benefited from Walt Kelly's witty wisdom when he observed: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."?
3. While the feud was factual, the exchange may be apocryphal. Lady Nancy Astor reportedly snarled at Winston Churchill, "Winston, if you were my husband, I should poison your coffee!". What was Churchill's famed alleged response?
4. In a classic exchange of 'barbed wires', renowned Anglo-Irish wit George Bernard Shaw came off second best to Winston Churchill. Shaw invited Churchill to the 1914 London premiere of "Pygmalion" with a wire reading: "Reserved two tickets opening night. Come, and bring a friend,if you have one." How did Churchill respond?
5. Who observed with her/his trademark sardonic wit that "A cynic is a man who knows the cost of everything, and the value of nothing."?
6. Biting wit is not limited to the arts and academia. What American "cowboy philosopher" had the following to say about learning? "There are three kinds of men, the one who learns from reading, the few who learn from observation, and the rest of them, who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
7. People everywhere love to complain about politicians (if they can get away with it). What great American writer, from Florida, Missouri fired off the following tirade? "Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons."
8. Which European author, whose surname is the name of his country, observed with bleak irony:. "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
9. This might be a free one for United Kingdom political history buffs. Which U.K. statesman described the divide between tragedy and catastrophe, thusly: "If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a tragedy, if someone dragged him out again, that would be a catastrophe."?
10. Sometimes wit warns that it bites. Which old stoic, cynical Greek advised "I am '____' the dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy, and bite scoundrels."
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