Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONAll discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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A good life is a main argument.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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