Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONAll the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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