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  1. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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  2. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Natural Causes: An Epidemic of

    If there is a lesson here it has to do with humility. For all our vaunted intelligence and complexity, we are not the sole authors of our destinies or of anything else. You may exercise diligently, eat a medically fashionable diet, and still die of a sting from an irritated bee. You may be a slim, toned paragon of wellness, and still a macrophage within your body may decide to throw in its lot with an incipient tumor.
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  3. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    Denys {Finch-Hatton} has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
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  4. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience- a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask."
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  5. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy
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  6. Robert J. Allison _ Before 1776: Life in the

    The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him."
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  7. Robert Louis Stevenson _ The Suicide Club

    Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?
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  8. Robert Louis Stevenson _ Kidnapped

    There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
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  9. Michael J Gelb _ The Art of Connection: 7

    True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It's an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there's something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.
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  10. William Shakespeare _ Henry V

    He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
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  11. William Shakespeare _ The Complete Works

    Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.
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  12. Annie Dillard _ Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    Xerxes, I read, 'halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction' the beauty of a single sycamore. You are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid peneplain…you call to you all your sad captains, and give the order to halt. You have seen the tree with the lights in it, haven't you? You must have. Xerxes buffeted on a plain, ambition drained in a puff. Your men are bewildered…there is nothing to catch the eye in this flatness, nothing but a hollow, hammering sky, a waste of sedge in the lee of windblown rocks, a meager ribbon of scrub willow tracing a slumbering watercourse…and that sycamore. You saw it; you will stand rapt and mute, exalted, remembering or not remembering over a period of days to shade your head with your robe. "He had its form wrought upon a medal of gold to help him remember it the rest of his life." We all ought to have a goldsmith following us around. But it goes without saying, doesn't it, Xerxes, that no gold medal worn around your neck will bring back the glad hour, keep those lights kindled so long as you live, forever present? Pascal saw it; he grabbed pen and paper and scrawled the one word, and wore it sewn in his shirt the rest of his life. I don't know what Pascal saw. I saw a cedar. Xerxes saw a sycamore.
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