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Guilt’s a terrible thing.

Ben Jonson

Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
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
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech

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