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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
Actor
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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Rich apparel has strange virtues it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us but they know it not.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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