Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

271. Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

In Memoriam, CXXXI

272. Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, CCXVII

273. If thou wilt go seek for a thief, no wonder if thou be robbed.

Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

Christian Ethics

274. He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

The Stones of Venice, Infidelitas, §99.

275. Damn with faint praise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Prologue to the Satires

276. Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797-1863)

Letter. When Viceroy of Ireland.