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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

Ben Jonson

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People

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