Physician, heal thyself.[128]

33. But because several accidental emergencies in conversation will now

and then invite a man, though bad enough himself, to correct others,

the most dexterous way of doing it will be to involve ourselves in the

same guilt with those we reprehend; as in this passage of Homer,

Fie, what’s the matter, Diomede, that we

Have now forgot our former gallantry?

and in this other,

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