Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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