Proverbial Wisdom

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

487. Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, CCXVII

488. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Old Proverb

489. At every trifle scorn to take offence,
That always shows great pride or little sense.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Criticism, line 386

490. Society in poverty is better than solitude in wealth.

Thomas Love Peacock (?1785-1866)

Melincourt (Mr Forrester), Ch. XII

491. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground-floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V

492. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III