“False humility is more insulting than open pride!”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Source: Rise of the Evening Star
“2994. It is not a sign of Humility to declaim against Pride.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : Declaiming against pride, is not always a Sign of Humility.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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