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A Humble Self-Estimate

Take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others, is the highest wisdom. ... We are all frail; consider none more frail than yourself.

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