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It is better to be

Quote byJohn Heywood · 1497–1580

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Part II, chapter 7..

English (original)

It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

— John Heywood

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