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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Ben Jonson

No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
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
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
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
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

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