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Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_063: Yet the word which cometh out of the mouth, and deeds known to men, bring wit...
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Yet the word which cometh out of the mouth, and deeds known to men, bring with them a most dangerous temptation through the love of praise: which, to establish a certain excellency of our own, solicits and collects men's suffrages. It tempts, even when it is reproved by myself in myself, on the very ground that it is reproved; and often glories more vainly of the very contempt of vain-glory; and so it is no longer contempt of vain-glory, whereof it glories; for it doth not contemn when it glorieth.
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Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400) · aug_conf_10_063
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