At an AA meeting:- And finally a Christmas one.  Happy Christmas everyone.   😊

  It’s almost Christmas, so I thought I’d test your knowledge, (or your guessing ability perhaps?).   Below are some quotes from the books, poems or short stories of famous writers through the ages.   It’s probably too much to expect you to be able to guess which story these quotes come from, but have a guess about the authors without Googling these to see if you can recognise the style of the writing.   Some of them may surprize you.   The answers are further down the page.   1)        1)  I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what is particularly dead about a door nail.   I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin nail as the deadest bit of ironmongery in the trade.   But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the country’s done.   2)        2)   There has been some talk latel...