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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

The Ruin of Self Love

Each of us thinks we have just cause for elevating ourselves and despising all others in comparison to ourselves—our self-love ruins us with such blindness.

John Calvin
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