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How near to good is what is fair!

Ben Jonson

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
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
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

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