Vice consul is a diplomatic (consular) rank, lower than that of a Consul and higher than that of a Consular Agent. A Vice Consul is a subordinate officer in a Consular Mission, generally called a Consulate General or a Consulate, authorized to exercise certain consular functions in the circumscription of the respective Consular Mission, in accordance with the instructions of the Head of the Consular Mission.
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“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.”
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