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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Ben Jonson

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
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
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
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue

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