"The best mirror is an old friend."
"The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]"
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Source: George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.298
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