Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

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The sayings in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 750 proverbial sayings.

Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.

1. He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Launcelot and Elaine.

2. Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of her, or truckle to her. Poverty is good-natured enough if you meet her like a man.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

Philip, Ch. XIX

3. Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

The Mill on the Floss, Bk II, Ch. II

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