"The best mirror is an old friend."
"To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]"
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Source: George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310
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