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. Cut thy coat according to thy cloth.
John Lyly (?1553-1606)
Euphues and his England
2. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III
3.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III
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