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Pride Quotes

"I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile."

"I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile."

Holly Black, American Author

Pride, Violence, Identity, Ritual

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"In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and good-looking than we are, we lose all pleasure in what we had. That is because we really had no pleasure in it. We were proud of it."

"In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and good-looking than we are, we lose all pleasure in what we had. That is because we really had no pleasure in it. We were proud of it."

Timothy J. Keller, American Author

Pride, Comparison, Insecurity, Status

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"Be broken and pride will have no vessel."

"Be broken and pride will have no vessel."

TemitOpe Ibrahim, Nigerian Poet

Pride, Humility, Release, Truth

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"He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him."

"He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him."

Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

Pride, Admiration, Indifference, Emotion

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"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."

"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Pride, Weakness, Humanity, Paradox

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