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There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one’s intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.
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Simone Weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology (1986), p. 35
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Never to blend our pleasure or our prideWith sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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William Wordsworth, Hart-leap Well, Part ii.