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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

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
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
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
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
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
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
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
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches

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