When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.