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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.