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To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

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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The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
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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 new broome sweepeth cleane.
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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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[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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The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
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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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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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When adversities flow, then love ebbs but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
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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 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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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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