I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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