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

Ben Jonson

Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSON

Enemy Grief Men
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Men Office
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON

Crime Injured Threaten
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
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
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
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.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Spring
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSON

Day Morning Prevent
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long

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