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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

John Lyly

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
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Kent
England
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When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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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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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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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
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[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
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Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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