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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

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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