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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

Ben Jonson

Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
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
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
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
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

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