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Better to be disliked than pitied.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

One may be humble out of pride.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I never did the things I wanted to do, but I’ve done the things that make me proud.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.