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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

Ben Jonson

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

Action Calumny Watches
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSON

Day Morning Prevent
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two

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