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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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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.
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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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The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
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A bargain is a bargain.
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.
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When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.
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Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
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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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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.
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