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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
John Lyly
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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
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Kent
England
John Lilly
John Lylie
John Lyly
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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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