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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Ben Jonson

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
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
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing

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