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Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false

Our ideals are our better selves

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor