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There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
John Lyly
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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
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Kent
England
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.
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Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
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The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
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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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