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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.

Ben Jonson

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSON

Marriage Men Wife
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
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.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise

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