One day [William] Wordsworth at a large party leaned forward… at the moment of silence and said: ‘Davy, do you know the reason I published my “White Doe” in quarto?'
’No,’ said Davy, slightly blushing at the attention this awakened.
"To express my own opinion of it replied Wordsworth.” Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Far better is to be praised than to self praise.
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