The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini: With Introduction and Note (Classic Reprint)
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Itistruethatmenwhohavelabouredwith someshowofexcel' lenoe, have already given knowledge of themselves to the world; andthisaloneoughttosuficethemflmeanthefactthatthey have paved their manhood and achieved renown. Yet one must needs live like others; and so in a work like this there will always be found occasion for natural bragging, which is of divers kinds, and thefirstisthatamanshouldletothersltnowhedrawshislineage frompersons worthandmostancientorigin.
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