Yes, certes, much more easily attained.

He has not risen by climbing himself, but by pushing others down.

He has grown great in his own estimation, not by blowing himself out, and risking the fate of AEsop's frog, but simply by the habitual use of a diminishing glass on everybody else.

And I think altogether that his is a better, a safer, and a surer recipe than most others.
After all, however, looking back on what I have written, I detect a spirit suspiciously like his own.

All through, I have been comparing myself with our satirist, and all through, I have had the best of the comparison.