Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive …

Joseph Addison
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Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproaches which it casts upon us, we see the worst side of ourselves. ✨ Joseph Addison (1839). Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste, p.109
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