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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

76 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:76
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:Good to be merie and wise. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
 
Note 1.
’T is good to be merry and wise.—Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Marston: Eastward Ho, act i. sc. 1. Robert Burns: Here ’s a health to them that ’s awa’. [back]