Samuel Langhorne Clemens Quotes on Humility
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.
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It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.