A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them : a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ... - Page 108 by Francis Bacon - 1818 - 290 pages Full view -
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