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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.

Ben Jonson

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
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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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way

Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.

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