They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSONGreatness 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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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