The advantages of humility find ready proofs in almost anything of which we can get an enlarged view from beneath—a worm’s-eye view. Seen from such an angle, and with such magnification, even so common a thing as the hoary head of a dandelion becomes as spectacular as a white peacock’s tail, as frozen fireworks in fairyland.
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