I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

