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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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Children and fools cannot lie.
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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The moon is made of a green cheese.
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Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
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A short horse is soone currid.
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A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!
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The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
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He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.
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A fooles bolt is soone shot.
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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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Better to be happy than wise.
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When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
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One swallow never makes a summer.
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