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. Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797-1863)
Letter. When Viceroy of Ireland.
2.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new hatched, unfledged comrade.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III
3.
Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, ‘Let Newton be!’ and all was light.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton
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