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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
John Lyly
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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
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Kent
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
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In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
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A new broome sweepeth cleane.
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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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