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  • He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.39