legebat etiam incessanter auctores cum reverentia antiquos, sine invidia recentes, et, quod inter homines difficillimum est, nulli difficulter ingenii laude cedebat.
He was also an incessant reader, reading the old writers with reverence and the modern ones without jealousy; and, the most difficult thing in the world, he was ready to think himself second to anyone in intellectual glory.
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