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• You cannot see the wood for the trees. -- John Heywood
• Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood. -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi...
• Children and fooles cannot lye. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi
• A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink with he will.
  -- John Heywood...
• The more the merrier. -- John Heywood
• Beggars should be no choosers. -- John Heywood
• Haste makes waste. -- John Heywood
• There is no fool to the old fool. -- John Heywood
• Oh! What timber,....These trees...these forests of trees.
  .. so enchain the sense of the beautiful that I linger on the theme and am loth to depart....