"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.“
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