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. The bad man’s cunning still prepares the way
For its own outwitting.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Zapolya, Sc. I

2. What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?

James Beattie (1768-1790)

The Wolf and the Shepherds

3. Ignorance of better things makes man,
Who cannot much, rejoice in what he can.

William Cowper (1731-1800)

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