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English cookbook, 1700

Page 76a

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design it is that which we call flattery; a very odious sort of insincerity; & so much ye worse; because it abuseth men into a vane; & foolish opinion of them selves; & an ill grounded confidence of ye kindness & good will of others towards them; it plays upon ourself love; which greedily catcheth at any thing that sends to magnifie & advance us; for god knows, we are all too apt to think and make ye best of our bad selves; so that very few tempers have Wisdom & firmness enough to be proof against flattery; it requires great Consideration & a resolute modesty & humility to resist ye insinuations of this serpent; yet a little rudeness & moroseness or nature; a prudent distrust & infidelity in mankind so mak a man in good earnest to reject & disguise it
 
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