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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

Ben Jonson

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
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
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
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
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

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