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. We look before and after, and pine for what is not.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ode to a Skylark
2. Loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnet, XXXV.
3. No crime’s so great as daring to excel.
Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
Epistle to Hogarth, line 52
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