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Put your toong in your purse.

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
Purse
Purses

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She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
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I know on which side my bread is buttered.
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A fooles bolt is soone shot.
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A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!
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Burnt child fire dredth.
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Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
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Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
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When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.
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He makes a beggar first that first relieves him Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.
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