It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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