excerpted from: The Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin (1793)
"In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our
natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down,
stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases,
it is still alive, and will every now and then
peep out and show itself; you will see it,
perhaps, often in this history; for,
even if I could conceive that I had completely
overcome it, I should probably be proud of
my humility."
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充滿著海藻味的風中，有一隻蝴蝶飛舞著。
他在剎那間感到這隻蝴蝶的翅膀觸及他乾燥的嘴唇。
但不知何時留在他唇上的翅膀粉末，
於數年後仍飛舞著。
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