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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

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
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
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding

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.

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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.

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