Match List I with List II:
| List I: Quotation | List II: Novelist |
|---|---|
| A. 'Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.' | I. D. H. Lawrence |
| B. 'Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.' | II. Charles Dickens |
| C. 'Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.' | III. Thomas Hardy |
| D. 'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!' | IV. Graham Greene |
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Correct answer: C. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Explanation
Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), last line; Lawrence; Greene, The End of the Affair (1951); Dickens, Dombey and Son (1848).
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