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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.

Ben Jonson
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Ben Jonson's Popular Quotes

That old bald cheater, Time.

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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

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Guilt's a terrible thing.

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