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Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remember'd tolling a departing friend.

      — King Henry IV. Part II, Act I Scene 1

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Coriolanus
[I, 1]

First Citizen

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Very well; and could be content to give him good
report fort, but that he pays himself with being proud.

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