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NP.778.002
19 Jan 1778:12,21 (5/225)
ON SELF-FLATTERY.
. . . forasmuch as they insist that they cannot go through
their business without they first raise themselves by a dram
of this; these are known by the names of poets, musicians,
alchymists, projects, &c. in a word, quacks of all sorts,
whether as the pretended sons of Hypocrates or Machiavel; as
physicians or politicians; but let me inform these high men,
that they must take particular care not to drink too deep of
this inebriating liquor, or they will immediately run mad
and do irreparable mischief to the world beneath them.
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