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O be very sure
That no man will learn anything at all,
Unless he first will learn humility.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Chronicles and Characters (1868)

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Source: Vol. ii, Book viii: From 1525 to 1789, "Vanini", p. 220.
Work: Chronicles and Characters, 1868
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