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Humility

San Diego minister Mark Trotter tells of the time when he and his wife and several others spent an informal evening with Robert Frost.   Trotter was impressed by the great poet’s humility.   Frost had no airs about him.   No pretense.   Every reference to himself was self-effacing: “I am a Vermont farmer.”   Trotter then recalls how Archibald MacLeish, another great poet, once introduced Robert Frost.   He put it like this: “No matter what happens to him, Robert Frost always come out of it a little more like himself.”   -from “A Little More Like Himself” This ought to be the aim of every human being.