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. What better school for manners, than the company of virtuous women?
David Hume (1711-1776)
Essay XIV, The Rise of Arts and Sciences
2.
But the age of chivalry is gone.
That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded;
and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Edmund Burke (1730-1797)
Reflections on the French Revolution
3. For all our works a recompence is sure: ’Tis sweet to think on what was hard t’ endure.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Hesperides, 851
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