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. Politeness costs nothing, and gains everything.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Letters

2. It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV

3. Opinion governs all mankind,
Like the blind’s leading of the blind.

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

Miscellaneous Thoughts, line 269

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