If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. - Ben Jonson - Quotesmemo.com

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Ben Jonson

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

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

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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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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.

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