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No man can end with being superior, who will not begin with being inferior.
No man can end with being superior, who will not begin with being inferior.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Sydney Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 1238 · printed citation: Sydney Smith
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