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

Ben Jonson

That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSON

Black Brain House
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON

Funeral Physicians Punishment
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.
BEN JONSON

Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once

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