"The best mirror is an old friend."
"If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best."
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Source: George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.18
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