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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Ben Jonson

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence

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