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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
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 have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent

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