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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.

Ben Jonson

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
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
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
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
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
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
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long

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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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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