For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSONTo the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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A good life is a main argument.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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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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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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