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Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Ben Jonson

He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
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
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
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
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
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.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech

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