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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
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
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In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
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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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A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love which is lawless.
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