There is a great difference betwixt a man, who is by nature diffident, and one, who is so by habit and reflection.
Empiricism, skepticism
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book II, Of the Passions, Part I, Of pride and humility, Section XII, Of the love of fame
1739
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