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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

Ben Jonson

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

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

Art Men Monsters
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
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.
BEN JONSON

Blind Love Slight Thinking
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON

Imperfect Light Opinion Things
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
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.
BEN JONSON

Done Noble Person Wrong
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House

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