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. Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The Rambler, No. 64
2.
Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Henry VI, Pt I (Bedford), Act II, Scene II
3.
Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than to reign in a palace, alone.
Whyte Melville (1821-1878)
Chastelar
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