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What excellent fools religion makes of men.

Ben Jonson

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
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
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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