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“He that would the daughter win
Must with the mother first begin.”
—17th-century English proverb, collected in J. Ray, English Proverbs (1670)

“A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.”
—Eighteenth-century English proverb. Collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

“In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
—Variously Ascribed.

The formulation was used as a motto by the English Nonconformist clergyman Richard Baxter (1615-1691)