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P.D. James
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Unnatural Causes
There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
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Jack Weatherford
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Genghis Khan and the Making of
The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.
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Anonymous
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Qurʾan / القرآن الكريم
Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.
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Fulton J. Sheen
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Life of Christ
If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.
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J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the
But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - , thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, - that there was all the difference in the world.
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Isabel Allende
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Daughter of Fortune
She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
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E.M. Forster
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A Room with a View
He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.
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E.M. Forster
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Maurice
Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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A Little Princess
If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who liked to domineer and feel her power, and as she looked at Sara's pale little steadfast face and heard her proud little voice, she felt quite as if her mind was being set at naught.
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dignity
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Daniel Defoe
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Robinson Crusoe
In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying.
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Madeleine L'Engle
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A Wrinkle in Time
Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?""Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are you will be by far the most vulnerable. You must stay with Meg and Calvin. You must not go off on your own. Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.
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Richard Kadrey
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Kill the Dead
They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.
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relationships
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