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Fortune, that favors fools.

Ben Jonson

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome

Fortune, that favors fools.

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