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. Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Scenes of Clerical Life: Mr Gilfil’s Love Story
2. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
The Wealth of Nations, Bk V, Pt III, Art. III
3. For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth: Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)
Proverbial Philosophy, Of Truth in Things False, 3
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