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.
He that is but able to express
No sense at all in several languages,
Will pass for learneder than he that’s known
To speak the strongest reason in his own.
Samuel Butler (1613-1680)
Satire upon Human Learning, Pt I, line 65
2.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Lady Clara Vere de Vere
3. The appetite of the labouring man laboureth for him.
The Bible
Proverbs 16:26
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