Plato
Philosopher
"Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude."
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Haughtiness
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Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
"With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot."
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"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
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"Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair."
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