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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Ben Jonson

One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
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
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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Art Giving Lying
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men

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