I am theOnly witness of Myself

There lurks, perhaps, in ever human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines ever man first to hope, and then to believe, that nature has given him something peculiar to himself. This vanity makes one mind nurse aversion, and another actuate desires, till they rise by art much above their original state of power; and as affectation in time improves to habit, they at last tyrannize over him who at first encouraged them only for show.

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