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

"A good husband makes a good wife."

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"Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born."

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"Who has not served cannot command."

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"To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not."

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"Praise the sea; on shore remain."

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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."

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