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Lot 14
WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG Autograph letter signed
Autograph letter signed. 2 pages, 8vo, Trinity College, Cambridge, 8 January 1936, to [Alice Ambrose], "I got your letter about 8 weeks ago but didn't answer it for it seemed to me to be in a sense all wrong, + at the same time felt that I'd have to write a book to explain why. But the gist of what I could have written is expressed in a wonderful saying of Swift's which I found quite somewhere: 'No man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook it.' It is damn difficult to be modest in your heart; I know this, because I lack modesty myself. (Though of course its easy for me to say a few modest sounding things)..."
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