"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt;……" — Helen Hunt Jackson
"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second."
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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34 Quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson
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For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child…
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O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days…
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