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. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Thoughts on Various Subjects
2. There’s daggers in men’s smiles.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Macbeth (Donalbain), Act II, Scene III
3.
A foole I doe him firmely hold,
That loves his fetters, though they were of gold.
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Faerie Queene, Bk III, Can. IX, St. 8
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