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Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.

John Lyly

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
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Deepest
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Smoothest

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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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