Whitman/people

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    I will put in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea—And
    I will report all heroism from an American point of view.
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)