Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; ’tis not the eating, nor ’tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.

John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist, legal scholar, antiquarian, polymath

Table Talk, § 53.3 “Humility” (1689)
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