“With the death of Ben Jonson and the beginning of the civil troubles the great literary society that had met at the Mermaid and the Devil Taverns was dissolved, and London saw no real literary society again until the time of Pope and Swift.”
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“They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.”

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“Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.”

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“Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.”

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“That old bald cheater, Time.”

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“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”

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