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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

Ben Jonson

Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
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
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
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
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
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
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
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter

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