"Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man, Who, having seen me in my worst estate, Shunn'd my abhorr'd society."
— Society

January 1, 1970

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William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act V, scene 3, line 208. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 724–25.