The quotes:
- Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
- A big, hardboiled city, with no more personality than a paper cup.
- Like being savaged by a dead sheep.
- Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.
- No one ever suddenly became depraved.
The utterers or writers:
- Raymond Chandler, 1949
- Valentine Blacker, 1856
- Juvenal, AD 60 to 130
- James Thurber, 1937
- Dennis Healey, 1978
Bonus points:
- Blacker’s was attributed to which civil war leader?
- Chandler referred to which?
- Which other MP was he referring to?
3 Dennis Healey referring to Geoffrey Howe
4. Blacker ▶️ Oliver Cromwell
My interwebs keeps dropping 😲
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JH: Interweb dropping … oh no! Drone perhaps? Answers of course correct.