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• The best effect of the search for success is that it makes us re-create ourselves.
• Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
  Conscience makes egotists of us all. -- Oscar Wilde...
• It has long been an article of our folklore that too much knowledge or skill, or especially consummate expertise, is a bad thing.
  It dehumanizes those who achieve it, and makes difficult their commerce with just plain folks, in whom good old common sense has not been obliterated by mere book learning or fancy notions....
• Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
  -- George Washingto...
• Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, but others judge us by what we have already done.
  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...