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The Renaissance3 quotes
The nature of bad news infects the teller. — William Shakespeare · 1607Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go,
Comfort's a cripple and comes ever slow. — Michael Drayton · 1603Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell
Remembered tolling a departing friend. — William Shakespeare · 1597Classical antiquity1 quote
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. — Sophocles · 442 BC