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Default Poor Bruce in Bangkok - he knows nothing about sailing.

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:

To a novice, competence, experience and unabashed pride in a job well-done
often appears to be arrogance.

Wilbur Hubbard





Arrogance — adj
having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance, merit,
ability, etc; conceited; overbearingly proud: an arrogant teacher ; an arrogant
assumption.

from Latin arrogāre to claim as one's own