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Man and wife make one fool.

Ben Jonson

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
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
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
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue

Man and wife make one fool.

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