12/11/24 Grif.Net - In the Courtroom (part 2) + Answer to Good Literature Quiz
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A police officer stopped a speeding car. The driver was dressed like a convict for a Halloween costume party.
When he got to the station, he found he had actually arrested a municipal Judge of his city.
He quickly learned to never book a judge by its cover.
~~ANSWERS to Great Literature Quiz~~
1. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
2. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”
3. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
4. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
5. “‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.’
6. “And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
7. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
8. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
9. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
10. “It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”
11. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
12. “Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
13. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
14. “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
15. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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Dr Bob Griffin
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