"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."

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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

— Wendell Berry