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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Ben Jonson

Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
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
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?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue

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