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. Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.

Eliza Cook (1818-1889)

A Song for the Ragged Schools

2. Fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Much Ado about Nothing (Conrade), Act III,
Scene III

3. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

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