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The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

John Heywood

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John Heywood
Age: 83 †
Born: 1497
Born: January 1
Died: 1580
Died: January 1
Aphorist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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London
England
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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Better is to bow than break.
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A cat may looke on a King.
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The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
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Nought venture nought have.
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A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
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Let the world slide, let the world go A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
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Put your toong in your purse.
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Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert The happy man's without a shirt.
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It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
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Many hands make light work.
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A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!
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