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Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Ben Jonson

Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
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
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

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