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• Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Husband, Drama, Pregnancy

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• If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Folly, One Thing, Ifs

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• Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.

  Rick Riordan

  Fall, Joy, Mind

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I was five steps away when he called, "Perseus." I turned. There was a different light in his eyes, a fiery kind of pride. "You did well, Perseus. Do not misunderstand me. Whatever else you do, know that you are mine. You are a true son of the Sea God.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Son, Light

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Percy Jackson," Hermes said, "because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you. You are in the hands of the Fates now. But you will never speak to me like that again. You have no idea how much I have sacrificed, how much—" His voice broke, and he shrank back to human size. "My son, my greatest pride . . . my poor May . . ." He sounded so devastated I didn't know what to say. One minute he was ready to vaporize us. Now he looked like he needed a hug.

  Rick Riordan

  Taken, Fate, Son

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• Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

  Melissa Marr

  Fall, Havens, Goeth

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• Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Thinking, Brain

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• To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Responsibility, Men, Sight

  "'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter II: "The Men", 1939.

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• How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have borne the sense of Almighty displeasure, because He knew all, and could read her penitence, and hear her cries for help in time to come. But Mr.Thornton-why did she tremble, and hide her face in the pillow? What strong feeling had overtaking her at last?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Strong, Imagination, Feelings

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

  Arthur Machen

  Silence, Weakness, Decency

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• The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Church, May

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Abnegation

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• Ria snorted. “Leo’s pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras?

  Lora Leigh

  Zebras, Mates

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• Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

  Jane Austen

  Loss, Laughing, Feelings

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.231, BookBaby

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• What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

  George MacDonald

  Boys, Conceited, Breathing

  George Macdonald (2012). “The Lost Princess: A Double Tale”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• If it rusts, it can never be trusted
  If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him
  Yes, pride is
  Like a blade.

  Tite Kubo

  Cutting, Bleach, Rust

  "Bleach". Manga Series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001–August 22, 2016.

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• How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

  George Eliot

  Christian, People, Petty

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.34, Penguin

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• My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

  Tana French

  Father, Men, Important

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• He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Heart, Self, Two

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

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• We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Compassion, Self, Empathy

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The White Witch”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Men, Luxury

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.37, Penguin

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• Willa’s big blue eyes, Willa’s dimpled-cheeked smile. Tiffin’s shaggy blond mane, Tiffin’s cheeky grin. Kit’s yells of excitement, Kit’s glow of pride. Maya’s face, Maya’s kisses, Maya’s love. Maya, Maya, Maya . . .

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Eye, Kissing, Blue

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• Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

  Caroline Knapp

  Integrity, Passivity Is, Drug

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.261, Dial Press

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• There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

  Terry Pratchett

  Safety, Treated, Died

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• She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

  David Foster Wallace

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