254.--Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to suppla… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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254.--Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others. It is one of the devices of Pride to lower us to raise us; and truly pride transforms itself in a thousand ways, and is never so well disguised and more able to deceive than when it hides itself under the form of humility.
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