[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .
Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.35, Macmillan
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