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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.

Ben Jonson

Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
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
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
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
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
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

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