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. Virtue is like pretious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover vice; but Adversity doth best discover virtue.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay V, Of Adversity

2. In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

The Bible

Proverbs 11:14

3. When the people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Ernest Maltravers, Bk VI, Chap. V

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