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. What better school for manners, than the company of virtuous women?
David Hume (1711-1776)
Essay XIV, The Rise of Arts and Sciences
2. There is no state in Europe where the least wise have not governed the most wise.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Imaginary Conversations, Rousseau and Malesherbes
3. A door without lock, is a bait for a knave.
Thomas Tusser (1524-1580)
The Points of Housewifery. After Supper Matters, 7
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