Quote by Joseph Addison
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity h

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. – Joseph Addison

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. – Joseph Addison

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. – Joseph Addison

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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small. – Yiddish Proverb

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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. – Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951

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Before honor is humility. – Bible

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