[HKMk23]

I have to stifle the impulse to try to match you.

Match away, but don't match me, match my craft of the language. Engage the pure motive to magnify the language and subject, rather than demonstrate superiority for ego's sake. Iron sharpens iron, as the Good Book says, and if my work spurs you to greater heights, we are all the more enriched.

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
~~ Sir Isaac Newton

[King Prout]

Match away, but don't match me, match my craft of the language. Engage the pure motive to magnify the language and subject, rather than demonstrate superiority for ego's sake. Iron sharpens iron, as the Good Book says, and if my work spurs you to greater heights, we are all the more enriched.

that is very gracefully put.
I'd like to add that, with citation, to my Quotes List.
Have I your leave to do so?