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"Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel."
"Humble Hearts have humble desires."
"At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm."
"An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen."
"The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions."
"Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys."
"Do you cherish your humble and silky life?"
"Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled."
"As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize."
"If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society."
"It is necessary to be humble in order to learn."
"Diss me and you'll never hear a reply for it"
"Don't come around and try come gas me up, I like running on E"
"Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis."
"Everybody got a deal, I did it without one"
"Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant."
"I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece of this and make do with what's left."
"Cause I was stayin home when they was having fun. So please don't be surprised when they announce that I won."
"Even when the Phantom's leased, them hoes wanna get in."
"Fans of these freshmen is about to get iffy while this youngin that you doubted is about to get busy."
