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Thou art an heyre to fayre lyving, that is nothing, if thou be disherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were it for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

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Fish and guests in three days are stale.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Euphues (1580)

Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

Midas (1591)

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.

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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

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