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• Let the world wagge, -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. v
• Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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• To robbe Peter and pay Poule. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi
• The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times asse
  The happy man 's without a shirt. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Be Merry Friend...
• I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. Menander (292 BC)
• No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
  If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time....
• Beware of, Had I wist. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ii
• I perfectly feele even at my fingers end. -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. vi...
• I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night.
  -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi...