Trade-offs

To make sense out of each sentence below, trade one of the letters in each word with one of the letters in parentheses. Each letter in parentheses will be used only once.

-1. She bent thinks if lift ace nut thinks
( e g g n o r s t )
-2. By best or i gold hovel us dreaming do began tie fast chatter
( a d f h i i l m n o p t t )
-3. Tie legs yon oven four hears so otters, toe pore dour heard surfers
( f h h h m p s t t t u y y )
-4. Oily i fowl tents thy death on tee wager wish moth felt
( a b e e f h n o p s t t )
-5. Cord, there he arm wring, male is wilting no chance; there be age sight, take up east do line wits
( e g h k l l m o r r s t t u v w w w w y )

4. Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

1. The best things in life are not things.

2. My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

Three good solves!

3. The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

5. Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with

Well done!