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

Ben Jonson

Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON

Gratitude Men Needs
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

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

Art Giving Lying
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells

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