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• People who run down others are taking a roundabout way of praising themselves.
• Riches certainly make themselves wings. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxiii, 5
• Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
• When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
• Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
  All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. George Bernard Shaw, english playwrite...
• Bell-ringers pull it themselves.