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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