“Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.”
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
“There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.”
1910s, "Natural Law", 32 Harvard Law Review 40, 41 (1918)
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