"Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded."
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"...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion."
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"The proud will sooner lose than ask their way."
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"To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy."
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"I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine."
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"I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter."
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"I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud."
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"To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud."
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"The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets."
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"This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film."
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"Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love."
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"He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle."
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"From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing."
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"Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds."
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"Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania"
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"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"
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"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."
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"If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud."
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"I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books."
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"He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly."
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