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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

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
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
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.
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Black Brain House
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick

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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