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Quote by Henry Bolingbroke
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem an

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. – Henry Bolingbroke

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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobodys word about them. – Henry Bolingbroke

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Pride is the mask of ones own faults. – Yiddish Proverb

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. – G. K. Chesterton

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Pride and poverty dont get along, but often live together. – Proverb

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None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power. – Proverb

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