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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

Ben Jonson

I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
BEN JONSON

Home Stills Wanderers
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

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

Birthday Praying Return
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
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
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy

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