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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
John Lyly
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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
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Kent
England
John Lilly
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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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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