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Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt tr...more

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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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It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

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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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If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of chil...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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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

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It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a ...more

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The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

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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