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. We could never have loved the earth so well, if we had had no childhood in it.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
The Mill on the Floss, Bk I, Chap. V
2.
Examples lead us, and we likely see;
Such as the prince is, will his people be.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Hesperides, 761.
3. A living dog is better than a dead lion.
The Bible
Ecclesiastes 4:12
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