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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

Ben Jonson

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
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
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

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