Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
487. Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Lacon, CCXVII
488. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
489.
At every trifle scorn to take offence,
That always shows great pride or little sense.
Essay on Criticism, line 386
490. Society in poverty is better than solitude in wealth.
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.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V
492. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III