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Flattery Is monstrous in a true friend.

— John (dramatist) Ford

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  2. Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseas…
  3. Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.
  4. Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
  5. Oh, happy kings, Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.
  6. Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.
  7. Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.
  8. Philosophers dwell in the moon.

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Topics in this quote

  • truth
  • communication
  • flattery
  • friendship
  • relationships

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