For those things which conduce to the comfort of life - and here fortune gave me plenty - to enjoy them without pride or apology either, so no routine acceptance of their presence or regret in their absence; the fact that no one would ever describe him as a fraud or an impostor or a pedant, but rather as a man of mallow wisdom and mature experience, beyond flattery, able to take charge of his own and others' affairs.
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