[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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