"Diamonds cut diamonds."
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John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy (licensed 24 November 1628; printed 1629), Act I, scene 3; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
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John Ford (dramatist)
John Ford (1586 β c. 1640) was one of the last English playwrights in the great Jacobean school that produced Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Jonson.
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