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> [Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/confound-these-ancestors-they-ve-stolen-our-best-ideas/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

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## More by Ben Jonson

> [Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/soul-of-the-age-the-applause-delight-the-wonder-of-our-stage-my/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/ambition-like-a-torrent-never-looks-back/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/heaven-prepares-good-men-with-crosses-but-no-ill-can-happen-to-a-good/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/the-dignity-of-truth-is-lost-with-much-protesting/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/true-melancholy-breeds-your-perfect-fine-wit/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [Leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/leave-a-kiss-but-in-the-cup-and-i-ll-not-look-for-wine/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/all-discourses-but-my-own-afflict-me-they-seem-harsh-impertinent-and/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [“drink to the cause, and pure vapours”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/drink-to-the-cause-and-pure-vapours/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/spread-yourself-upon-his-bosom-publicly-whose-heart-you-would-eat-in/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [That old bald cheater, Time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/that-old-bald-cheater-time/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/rich-apparel-has-strange-virtues-it-makes-him-that-hath-it-without/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/each-petty-hand-can-steer-a-ship-becalm-d-but-he-that-will-govern-and/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [The way to rise is to obey and please.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/the-way-to-rise-is-to-obey-and-please/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/the-covetous-man-never-has-money-the-prodigal-will-have-none-shortly/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

> [Fortune, that favors fools.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/fortune-that-favors-fools/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

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