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As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions

John Lyly

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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