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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
John Lyly
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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
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Kent
England
John Lilly
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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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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love which is lawless.
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A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
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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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Though women have small force to overcome men by reason yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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