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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

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 best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
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
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
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
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
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

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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