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Pride Quotes by Mark Twain
- Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
- What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can…
- The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
- I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
- Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.
- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but…
- Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
- Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
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