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.
Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than to reign in a palace, alone.
Whyte Melville (1821-1878)
Chastelar
2. Mellow nuts have hardest rind.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Lord of the Isles, Can. III, XXL
3. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Essays, State Tamperings with Money and Banks
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