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Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.

Jeremy Collier

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Jeremy Collier
Age: 76 †
Born: 1650
Born: January 1
Died: 1726
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
Priest
Theatre Critic
Writer
County of Cambridge
Every
Faults
Swells
Beyond
Omission
Bring
Outrage
Quality
Conceit
Else
Scale
Nothing
Fault
Self
Scales
Magnifies
Sometimes
Proportion
Weighty

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