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I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
Actor
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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All discourses but my own afflict me they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray prosperity never.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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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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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray And so do I.
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
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To the old, long life and treasure To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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