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Wit Quotes by Ben Jonson
- Your highest female grace is silence.
- It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
- True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
- Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser…
- Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats…
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