In doing so, he learned one of his pragmatic lessons about jealousy and modesty: he found that people were reluctant to support a proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one’s reputation.
Walter Isaacson
In doing so, he learned one of his pragmatic lessons about jealousy and modesty: he found that people were reluctant to support a proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one’s reputation.