What G. K. Chesterton thinks about ambition

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English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936); author of Orthodoxy.

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   Our readingModern humility is misplaced: it has moved from ambition to conviction

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   Their wordsBut what we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be.

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