23 Quotes by Ben Jonson about men

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    A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

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    The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

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    Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

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    When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

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    No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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    The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

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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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    Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

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    No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

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