“Yet true it is, as cow chews cud
And trees at spring do yield forth bud,
Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind turns none to good.”

— Thomas Tusser

A Description of the Properties of Wind, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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English poet 1524–1580

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