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 is not worthy of the honey-comb,
Who shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
Anonymous (1595)
Locrine (Hubba), Act III, Scene II
2. That’s a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)
3. Best things carry’d to excess are wrong.
Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
The Rosciad, line 1039
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