"The best mirror is an old friend."
"When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin."
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Source: George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.318
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