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A good king is a public servant.

Ben Jonson

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
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
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
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
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking

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