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. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
Lacon, I
2.
Let us not burden our remembrance with
An heaviness that’s gone.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The Tempest (Prospero), Act V, Scene I
3. Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Political Essays, On the Clerical Character
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