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Ben Jonson

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Those that merely talk and never think,
That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
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XLVII, An Epistle, Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben, lines 9-10. Compare: "They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think", Matthew Prior, Upon a passage in the Scaligerana.

 
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