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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

Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
BEN JONSON

Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSON

Folly Impudence Rudeness
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSON

Real Spices Virtue
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking

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