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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

Ben Jonson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
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
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
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
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Education Inspirational Past
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

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