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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

Ben Jonson

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
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
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

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