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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Ben Jonson

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring

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