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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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Though women have small force to overcome men by reason yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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