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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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The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
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As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.
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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
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When adversities flow, then love ebbs but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
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If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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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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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
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