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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Ben Jonson

One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet

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