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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
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Kent
England
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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A bargain is a bargain.
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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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If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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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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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
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