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For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.   Florio, John

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Giovanni Florio (1553 1625), English writer, was born in London about 1553.

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