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. Look ere ye leape.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. II.

2. Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797-1863)

Letter. When Viceroy of Ireland.

3. Pride,
Howe’er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems Written in Youth, VII

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