• It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

  Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio

  Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet 1573-1637
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. praised
2. person
3. nature
4. place
5. noble

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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature. by : Ben Jonson

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