"With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure, no humiliation. So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. . . ."
— Humiliation

January 1, 1970

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William James, in B. Hergenhahn, Tracy Henley An Introduction to the History of Psychology, Cengage Learning, 27 February 2013, 329.