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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
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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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
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.
BEN JONSON

Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing

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