Be humble Quote by Philip Pullman

“Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”

Philip Pullman

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To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

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