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" Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. "
Jonathan Swift
Rather
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" No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. "
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" Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. "
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" Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. "
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