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. Them as ha’ never had a cushion don’t miss it.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Adam Bede (Mrs Poyser), Bk VI Chap. XLIX
2. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Science and Culture.
On Elementary Instruction in Physiology.
3. Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of her, or truckle to her. Poverty is good-natured enough if you meet her like a man.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Philip, Ch. XIX
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