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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.

Ben Jonson

Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True

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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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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