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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

Ben Jonson

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
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
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread

One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

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