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. The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Preface to his Dictionary
2. There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
As recorded by James Boswell in his ‘Life of Johnson’
3. Birds of a feather will gather together.
Old Proverb
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