Pope John Paul I Quotes
Loving Ourselves So Much, We Are Naturally Led To Enlarge Our Own Merits, To Play Down Our Transgressions, To Judge Others By Different Standards From Those Used To Judge Ourselves. Enlarged Merits? They Are Described By Your Fellow-writer Trilussa:
The Little Snail Of Vainglory
Who Had Crawled Up An Obelisk
Looked At Its Slimy Trail And Said:
I See I'll Leave My Mark On History.
This Is The Way We Are, Dear Twain; Even A Bit Of Slime, If It Is Our Own, And Because It Is Our Own, Makes Us Boast, Gives Us A Swelled Head!
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