"The best mirror is an old friend."
"In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell."
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Source: George Herbert, Edward Clarke LOWE (1867). “The Church Porch, :... [being the Introduction to the Poem Entitled “The Temple”]; with Notes; and a Selection of Latin Hymns for Sunday Use in Upper Forms, Edited by E. C. Lowe”, p.17
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