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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. – Michel de Montaigne

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. – George Bernard Shaw

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Flatter yourself critically. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007

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He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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