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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ben Jonson

One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder

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