"The best mirror is an old friend."
"Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick."
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Source: George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.8
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