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Man and wife make one fool.

Ben Jonson

I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
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
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins

Man and wife make one fool.

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