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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Ben Jonson

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSON

Enemy Grief Men
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

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

Feet Flower Roots
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

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