Quotation by Shakespeare

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Berowne, in Love's Labor's Lost, act 5, sc. 2, l. 753.

News of the death of the Princess's father reduces the courtiers to plain-speaking.
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