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Man and wife make one fool.

Ben Jonson

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
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
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding

Man and wife make one fool.

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