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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
Playwright
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Kent
England
John Lilly
John Lylie
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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
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Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.
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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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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
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