John Florio

Florio, John (c.1553-1625). Translator. Born in London the son of an Italian Protestant, he taught languages and composed textbooks and a dictionary before publishing in 1603 his great translation of Montaigne's Essais, a free yet faithful version which left its mark on innumerable English speakers, including Shakespeare.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: English lexicographer remembered for his Italian and English dictionary (1553-1625)
  Synonym: Florio

Quotes:

"A good husband makes a good wife."

"Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born."

"Who has not served cannot command."

"To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not."

"Praise the sea; on shore remain."

"For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good."

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