Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONI remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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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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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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