“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”

— John Herschel

As quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity : More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson, p. 147

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English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer 1792–1871

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