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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)

croft, in a conversation with the writer, made a comment on John Adams, which in substance corresponds with the text. When power exists in a man, he will rarely fail to know it. Merit and modesty, it has been wittily said, have nothing in common but the initial letter; Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1887), vol IX. p. 718. and a German thinker has written that no one can be blind to his own merit any more than to his height. Schopenhauer. A reviewer of Macaulay, Quarterly Review, July and Oct. 1876, p. 6. who was also accused of an inordinate estimate of himself, has tersely said of vanity that it is a defect rather than a vice; never admitted into the septenary catalogue of the mortal sins of Dante and the Church; often lodged by the side of high and strict virtue, often allied with an amiable and playful innocence,—a token of imperfection, a deduction from greatness, and no more. This quality or habit of Sumner, whatever he had of it, was harmless. It led him to no distorted vi

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