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A new broome sweepeth cleane.

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John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
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A bargain is a bargain.
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
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Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love which is lawless.
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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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When adversities flow, then love ebbs but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
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In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
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The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
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As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
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Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made 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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A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.
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