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"Though the most be players, some must be spectators."
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Ben JonsonTalking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, a — Ben Jonson
"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks..."
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Benjamin Jonson was an English poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614), and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as "the second most impor
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"Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it neer so much."
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"Art hath an enemy calld ignorance."
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"Calumnies are answered best with silence."
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"Thou lookst like Antichrist in that lewd hat."
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"It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be."
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