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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Thomas Mann

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Thomas Mann
Age: 80 †
Born: 1875
Born: June 6
Died: 1955
Died: August 12
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Social Critic
University Teacher
Writer
Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Perreo
Lose
Endorse
Respect
Forfeit
Loses
Complacency
Opinion
Misfortune
Self
Betray
Real
Misfortunes
Good
Contempt
World
Oneself
Unhesitatingly

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