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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Ben Jonson

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSON

Day Morning Prevent
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
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
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSON

Art Giving Lying
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure

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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