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.
How were pity understood
Unless by pain?
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Parleyings with Certain People: Francis Farini
2. The cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull.
Old Spanish Proverb
Quoted by Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
Essay XV, Of Seditions and Troubles
3. Damn with faint praise.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Prologue to the Satires
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