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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

Source: In Words of Wisdom, by Wm. Safire & Leonard Safire, 1989.
-- Miguel de Cervantes, (Sep 29 1547-1616), Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet; He was the most important figure in Spanish literature; creator of Don Quixote, 1605, a satirical romance of chivalry.

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