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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Ben Jonson

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
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
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
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
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

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