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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

Ben Jonson

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World

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