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. Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)

The Virtuous Lady. Of Books

2. One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Middlemarch, Bk II, Ch. XVII

3. Man proposeth, God disposeth.

George Herbert (1593-1633)

Jacula Prudentum

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