While preparing the quiz, I made some interesting discoveries. (If you’re interested, here’s a link to the quiz. Recently, I gave my kids a quiz where they had to identify the source of classic English quotes. Shakespeare and King James were responsible for some of the English language’s most memorable phrases and proverbs, including, “many are called, but few are chosen,” and “to thine own self be true.” Will Shakespeare was whacking out his best plays, while King James and Co. The early seventeenth century was a time of unbridled creativity for English writers.
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