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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Ben Jonson

Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
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
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring

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