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Fortune, that favors fools.

Ben Jonson

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
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
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
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?
BEN JONSON

Men Mistress Shadow
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSON

Folly Impudence Rudeness
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked

Fortune, that favors fools.

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