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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

Ben Jonson

Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

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