"The best mirror is an old friend."
"One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father."
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Source: George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1862). “The Works of George Herbert ... Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, etc”, p.315
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