| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Bluntness |
| | | | I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, |
| Nor actions, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, |
| To stir mens blood: I only speak right on. |
Shakespeare. | 1 |
| | This is some fellow, |
| Who having been praisd for bluntness, doth affect |
| A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb, |
| Quite from his nature: he cant flatter, he! |
| An honest mind and plain,he must speak truth! |
| And they will take it so; if not hes plain. |
| These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness |
| Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, |
| Than twenty silly, ducking observants, |
| That stretch their duty nicely. |
Shakespeare. | 2 | | |
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