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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.

John Heywood

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John Heywood
Age: 83 †
Born: 1497
Born: January 1
Died: 1580
Died: January 1
Aphorist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
London
England
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This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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When the sunne shineth, make hay.
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Many hands make light work.
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Hunger makes hard beans sweet.
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Better to give then to take.
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The more haste, the less speed.
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A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!
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One swallow never makes a summer.
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It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.
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And death makes equal the high and low.
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So many heads so many wits.
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Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
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When the devil drives, needs must.
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
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The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
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Don't put the cart before the horse.
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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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