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Proverbs 25:6

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Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

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Verse 6. Glorious, or a boaster. Bible.—We must not seek the first places. Lu. 14:10.

Vive sine invidiâ, mollesque inglorius annos

Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares. Ovid. Trist. iii. 4.

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