"Victory is by nature insolent and haughty." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making… — Elizabeth Bowen
• Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack… — Sun Tzu
• Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man. — Euripides
• Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Joseph Addison
• We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn… — John Stott
• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme… — Jean de la Bruyere
• Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round… — Khalil Gibran
• I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence… — Joseph Epstein
• We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn… — John Stott
• As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged… — Peter Greenaway
• The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of… — Milton R. Hunter
• I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this… — W. S. Gilbert

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