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.
Freedom, which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom, an English subject’s sole prerogative,
Without whose charms even peace would be
But a dull, quiet slavery.
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Threnodia Augustalis (on the death of King Charles II in 1685)
2. Woe to the crown that doth the cowl obey!
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt I, XXIX
3. 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
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