"No better than you should be."
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Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb (c. 1608–10; 1647), Act IV, scene 3; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
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Beaumont and Fletcher
Beaumont and Fletcher were the English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, who collaborated in their writing during the reign of James I. Their collaboration was so well regarded that works individually authored by either are sometimes errantly reported as having been by the collaboration. These include later collaborations by Fletcher with [
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