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"The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." -
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Top 5 quotes from Pride
"The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism."
"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."
"But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own."
"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so."
"Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening."
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