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. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III
2. Literature is a very bad crutch, but a very good walking-stick.
Charles Lamb
Letter to Bernard Barton.
3. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Essay on the Faculties of the Mind
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