Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Puzzles

• We are so vain that we even ___ the opinion of those we don't ___.
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• Passion is always ___, even when gratified.
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• How ___ must one be to be always kind.
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• To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, ___.
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• An opinion may be controverted; a ___, never.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach?

  • → You always admire what you really don't understand.
  • → Should I ever develop greater willpower, I’ll be able to overpower it.
  • → I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
  • → Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.

  • → Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
  • → It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
  • → Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.
  • → He who has not looked on sorrow will never see Joy.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.

  • → Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
  • → Age either transfigures or petrifies.
  • → Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
  • → Society is founded upon cloth.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Which one?

  • → A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.
  • → The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
  • → Age either transfigures or petrifies.
  • → Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach?

  • → The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
  • → Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
  • → What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
  • → A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach?

  • → The simplification of anything is always sensational.
  • → The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
  • → Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
  • → If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.

  • → We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
  • → When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
  • → The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
  • → We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
  
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