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Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

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
Follow
Pleasure
Flee
Thee

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The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
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I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
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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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Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
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She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
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Time trieth troth in every doubt.
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Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
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Many hands make light work.
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But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
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