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. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III
2.
Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercie ever hope to have?
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
The Faerie Queene, Bk IV, Can. I, St. 42
3. When the stool’s rotten enough, no matter who sits on it.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Scenes from Clerical Life, Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)
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