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“Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise; and yet everybody is content to hear.”
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- Source:
- Table Talk. Humility.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bd38ccf396344d74e49910364d4fb861b529ebfe2fc4f3f2bea18866519b3b44
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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