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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Ben Jonson

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
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
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
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
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men

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