"It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble."

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Jane Austen

#Humble Quotes #Prosperity Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“Persistence is the quality of winners. Successful people never, never give up.”
“My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids.”
“Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you'll know what it means to live.”
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”
“Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.”
“Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.”
“I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.”
“When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 371-372), 1922.

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