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James Howell

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It's no use crying over spilt milk' *It means that what has happened is over and can not be changed, so clean up the mess and get on with life* What’s done, is done.


— James Howell


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Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.


— James Howell


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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.


— James Howell


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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.


— James Howell


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All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.


— James Howell


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Respect a man, he will do it the more.


— James Howell


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This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.


— James Howell


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Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.


— James Howell


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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.


— James Howell


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James Howell (c. The son of a Welsh clergyman he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell who became Lord Bishop of Bristol. 1594 – 1666) was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age.

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