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A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.

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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I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
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Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
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To give importance to trifling matters.
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When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
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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.
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The more the merrier.
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Children and fools cannot lie.
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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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