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Exercise "Quotations from British writers", created by bernard02 (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 1 824 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 28.5 / 100 Share


Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): soubeyranne / FRANCE, on Sunday 04 October - 11:25:
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Stats (1824 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 23 %
'As I know more about mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.' *

Question 2 passed: 17.2 %
'It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.' *

Question 3 passed: 22 %
'When making your choices in life, do not forget to live.' *

Question 4 passed: 14.3 %
'Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.' *

Question 5 passed: 21.6 %
'Hell is paved with good intentions ' *

Question 6 passed: 19.3 %
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.' *

Question 7 passed: 12.8 %
'People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.' *

Question 8 passed: 18.8 %
'The most execrable crimes are sometimes committed without apparent temptation. ' *

Question 9 passed: 70.9 %
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!' *

Question 10 passed: 69.4 %
'Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.' *

Question 11 passed: 20.3 %
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.' *

Question 12 passed: 23.9 %
'All that glitters is not gold.' *


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