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.
A foole I doe him firmely hold,
That loves his fetters, though they were of gold.
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Faerie Queene, Bk III, Can. IX, St. 8
2. A man’s vanity tells him what is honour, a man’s conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Imaginary Conversations: Peter Leopold and President Du Paty (Leopold)
3. Society in poverty is better than solitude in wealth.
Thomas Love Peacock (?1785-1866)
Melincourt (Mr Forrester), Ch. XII
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