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Man and wife make one fool.

Ben Jonson

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
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
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
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
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts

Man and wife make one fool.

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