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On Sun, 10 Jan 16 01:52:03 UTC millymay (84) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
to have no roots
Where would you like to live?
where I am
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
helpful friends and neighbours
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
very few!
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Morse, Darcy, Inspector Lynley
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Wilberforce, Lord Salisbury, Tommy Douglas
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Edith Cavell, Rosa Parkes,
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Elizabeth Bennet,
Your favorite painter?
Turner, Gainsborough
Your favorite musician?
George Gershwin
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence . tolerance
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Listening, responsability
Your favorite virtue?
Patience
Your favorite occupation?
Reading, talking
Who would you have liked to be?
me
Your most marked characteristic?
to be understood
What do you most value in your friends?
fidelity
What is your principle defect?
too quick to react
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
to loose my family
What would you like to be?
myself without the faults
What is your favorite color?
blue
What is your favorite flower?
many depends on the time of the year
What is your favorite bird?
as above
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Austen
Who are your favorite poets?
Rene Fumoleau
Who are your heroes in real life?
my father, those who gave their time and sometimes their lives for others
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Elizabeth 1, Florence Nightingale, women who held the home together
What are your favorite names?
mine
What is it you most dislike?
indifference
What historical figures do you most despise?
any who do not respect human values or rights
What event in military history do you most admire?
Battle of Britain
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
not to worry about what people will think (English upbringing!) better than it was
How would you like to die?
at home
What is your present state of mind?
slight amusement that questionaires always create!
What is your motto?
Do as you would be done by

Little old for this questionnaire. Wonder what my answers will be in possibly 5 years?

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