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.
Dissensions like small streams are first begun;
Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run.
Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719)
The Dispensary, Can. III, line 184
2.
Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Manfred, Act I, Scene I
3. There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Letter to Quincy, 11th Sept., 1773
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