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“Where will you find the certainty that it was not after all a hidden pride which governed your resolution?”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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“None are more readily taken with flattery than the proud, who wish to be first, but are not.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“Man . . . how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Still, the proudest spirit can be broken, with love.”

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“You take somebody's mother, all they want to hear about is what a hotshot their son is.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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