“4769. The Sting of a Reproach is the Truth of it.”

—  Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1746) : The Sting of a Reproach, is the Truth of it.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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