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What do you know about great journal writers of the past?

Famous Journals: Answers

Brightly-coloured letters of the alphabet.

Were you able to match these quotes to their writers? Some of the matches may surprise you. (Beethoven was murder on the household help, and Queen Victoria was really romantic.)

Matching.

QuotesWriter
  1. Veni, vidi, vici. (Snail mail.)
  2. …and so to bed.
  3. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
  4. engaged George Drewyer in the public service as an Indian Interpretter…
  5. I have made myself!
  6. …I talked with Albert Einstein at his home in Princeton…
  7. He clasped me in his arms and we kissed each other again and again.
  8. The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
  9. The kitchen-maid ran away in the evening.
  10. …the most impressive view is the curve of the planet at the horizon.
  1. Julius Caesar
  2. Samuel Pepys
  3. Sylvia Plath
  4. Meriwether Lewis
  5. Napoleon
  6. Linus Pauling
  7. Queen Victoria
  8. Marilyn Monroe
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven
  10. Peggy Whitsun (astronaut blogger)

We can't promise that you'll be as famous as these folks, but we're sure your NaJoPoMo journal will be read and appreciated.

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