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I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
Ben Jonson
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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
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City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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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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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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