Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

19. The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin deep saying.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

Essays, Personal Beauty

20. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768)

Sentimental Journey

21. Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.

Horace Smith (1779-1849)

Horace in London, Bk II, Ode XV

22. Life has no path so short as to renown !

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

King Arthur, Bk XII, CLXI

23. A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)

Proverbial Philosophy. Of Reading, line 14

24. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Traveller, line 386