Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate. - John Lyly

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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.

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Is it not true which Seneca reporteth, that as too much bending breaketh the bowe, so too much remission spoyleth the minde?

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