Proverbial Wisdom

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

31. A man’s vanity tells him what is honour, a man’s conscience what is justice.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Imaginary Conversations: Peter Leopold and President Du Paty (Leopold)

32. 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

33. The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Felix Holt, Ch. XIII

34. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III

35. Reading is seeing by proxy.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

The Study of Sociology, Ch. XV

36. There is truth in falsehood, falsehood in truth.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

A Soul’s Tragedy , Act II