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Success hath made me wanton.

Ben Jonson

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
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
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
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men

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