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Quote by Phillips Brooks
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller th

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks

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