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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

William Hazlitt

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Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
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