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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with read more
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing read more
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.
Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.
Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.
Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish read more
Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
