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Success hath made me wanton.

Ben Jonson

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short

Success hath made me wanton.

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