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I didn't mean to pick on Patrick. This "honored/humbled" thing has been going on in our culture for a while now.



According to Google, it's been on the rise since the 40's.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=honored+and+humbl...


Pretty interesting graph. It started growing exponentially in the 90's.




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