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For how can he be at leasure to take notice of anothers worth, who is so wholely taken up in the contemplation of his own? Let the Reputation of his best Friends (if it be possible for a Proud man to have any) be in never so great danger, he like Archimedes, is so overbusie in admiring the Creatures of his own brain, those Draughts and Ideas which he has form'd of himself there, that he regards not the Ruin that is about him. |
For how can he be At leisure to take notice of another's worth, who is so wholly taken up in the contemplation of his own? Let the Reputation of his best Friends (if it be possible for a Proud man to have any) be in never so great danger, he like Archimedes, is so overbusy in admiring the Creatures of his own brain, those Draughts and Ideas which he has formed of himself there, that he regards not the Ruin that is about him. |
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