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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Ben Jonson

The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
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
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
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

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