It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good

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Even the most negative or destructive situations usually benefit someone

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John Heywood’s A Dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe tongue, 1546: “As you be muche the worse. and I cast awaie. An yll wynde, that blowth no man to good, men saie.