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Though women have small force to overcome men by reason yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
John Lyly
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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
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Kent
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As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.
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In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
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Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
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