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Without Humility, We Keep All Our Defects; And They Are Only Crusted Over By Pride, Which Conceals Them From Others, And Often From Ourselves.

-Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Without Humility, We Keep All Our Defects;

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Without Humility, We Keep All Our Defects; And They Are Only Crusted Over By Pride, Which Conceals Them From Others, And Often From Ourselves.

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