Samuel Johnson Quotes on Humility
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A lady once asked him how he came to define Pastern the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as she expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.