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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

Ben Jonson

I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
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
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing

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