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 love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

Political Essays. On the Connection between
Toad Eaters and Tyrants.

2. A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of Pictures; and talke but a tinckling Cymball, where there is no love.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay XXVII, Of Friendship.

3. From shaven chins never came better justice
Than those ne’er touched by razor.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)

The Old Law (Eugenia), Act V, Scene I

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