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.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
King Lear (Lear), Act I, Scene IV
2. It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Silas Marner, Ch. XII
3. Nobody can deny but that religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
Letter to the Countess of Bute, 23rd June, 1754
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