Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Augustus Hare
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
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