"The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride."
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"To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire."
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"Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of."
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"The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride."
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"If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty."
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"As Pride increases, Fortune declines."
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"Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse"
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"Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind."
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"She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself."
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"The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others."
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"Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays."
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"Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days."
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"As God adds his 'Yes' to your 'Yes,' as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his 'Yes' to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new - the holy estate of matrimony."
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"You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it."
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"He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn’t stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away. During the following weeks Ford Perfect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox."
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"Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain."
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"Traditionally the United States has been the natural leader of the world. That's not just pride as an American speaking; it's just the reality. Without the U.S. being involved in Paris Climate Agreement, it's hard for the world community to move forward as effectively."
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"I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled."
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""A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight.""
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"Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things."
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