The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, and time to speak it in; you rub the sore, when you should bring the plaster.
 William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1623). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source The Tempest
Topic truth kindness
Date 1623
Language English
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Note Written between 1610 and 1611
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