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- @@@@ WORLDLY WISDOM @@@@
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- @@@ JAMES L. MATHEWS @@@
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- If you can find the missinG letters in these sentences you will
- discover a fount of wisdom, for they are all old English
- proverbs.
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- What are the missing letters?
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- 1. MISSISSGOODSMILE
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- 2. OOKBEFOREYOUEAP
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- 3. ASTTCHNTMESAVESNNE
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- 4. MNYHNDSMKELIGHTWORK
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- 5. TMANYCKSSPILTHEBRTH
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- 6. NEVERLKAGIFTRSEINTHEMUTH
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- 7. AROLLINGTONEGATHERNOMO
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- 8. THARLYBIRDCATCHSTHWORM
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- 9. ABIRDINHEHANDISWORHWOINHEBUSH
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- 10. RLTBDRLTRSMKSMNHLTHWLTHNDWS
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- ANSWERS:
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- The missing letters were...
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- 1. A is missing. The proverb is "A miss is as good as a mile".
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- 2. L is missing. The proverb is "Look before you leap".
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- 3. I is missing. The proverb is "A stitch in time saves nine".
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- 4. A is missing. The proverb is "Many hands make light work".
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- 5. O is missing. The proverb is "Too many cooks spoil the
- broth."
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- 6. O is missing. The proverb is "Never look a gift horse in the
- mouth".
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- 7. S is missing. The proverb is "A rolling stone gathers no
- moss".
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- 8. E is missing. The proverb is "The early bird catches the
- worm".
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- 9. T is missing. The proverb is "A bird in the hand is worth
- two in the bush".
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- 10. A, E, I, O and Y are missing. The proverb is "Early to bed,
- early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise".
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