Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony … - John Selden

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John Selden

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.

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