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By Louisa May Alcott
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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- Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (Part 1, first edition), 1868 · Part 1, Chapter VII, "Amy's Valley of Humiliation", p. 106 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Internet Archive (University of California scan of Little Women, Part 1, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868; the title page reads 1868)
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From Chapter VII, "Amy's Valley of Humiliation", of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, Part 1 (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868, first edition). Spoken by Mrs. March (Marmee) to her youngest daughter Amy.