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What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star. (William Wordsworth)[][]
Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men, Proud of their vain learning, go round and round Like the blind led by the blind. Far beyond Their eyes, hypnotized by the world of sense, Opens the way to immortality. (Upanishads)[][]
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. (William Shakespeare)[][]
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. (John Ruskin)[][]
The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakable egoism. (H.L. Mencken)[][]
The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about. (William Hazlitt)[][]
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap. (Johann Von Goethe)[][]
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance. (William S. Gilbert)[][]
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. (John Foster)[][]
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