Page 171 Francis Bacon. Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones. Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new. Westward Hoe, act ii.
Old friends are best.
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