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Lette me stande to the maine chance.

John Lyly

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
John Lilly
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John Lyly
Maine
Chance

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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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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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If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
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