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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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Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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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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If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
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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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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
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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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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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A bargain is a bargain.
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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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