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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

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Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-...more

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When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from th...more

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As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down ...more

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the plea...more

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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any ...more

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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them...more

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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them...more

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... A man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving them to the best of his abil...more

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He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inconsistent... by exploiting his vanity. He can... en...more

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Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).