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.
He that wold not when he might,
He shall not when he wold-a.
Old Ballad (1609)
The Baffled Knight, or Blow Away the Morning Dew
2. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
The Wealth of Nations, Bk I, Ch. VIII
3. Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Pericles (Pericles), Act I, Scene I
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