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math.psu.edu).
"just as it is not the self-righteous man who brings multitudes to a sense of sin,
but the man who is most deeply conscious that he is himself a sinner,
and it is only by a sense of sin that men can escape its thraldom;
so it is not the man who thinks he knows it all,
that can bring other men to feel their need of learning,
and it is only a deep sense that one is miserably ignorant
that can spur one on in the toilsome path of learning."
-- Benjamin Peirce