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A good king is a public servant.

Ben Jonson

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSON

Mean Remembrance Rich World
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.
BEN JONSON

Home Joy
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

Hell Industry Yield
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom

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