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• So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
• I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of another. -- Greville
• So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap.
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• A bore is a man who talks so much about himself that you can't talk about yourself.
• Bore: A man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself.
  -- Melville D. Lando...
• If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse-as when a man shoots himself.
• In his private heart no man much respects himself. -- Mark Twai
• Oh wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound.
  -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke...
• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.
  He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a teacher. -- Ben Johnso...