All friends shall taste The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their deserving.

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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ― Carl Gustav Jung

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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. ― Rudyard Kipling

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There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it. ― Criss Jami

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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. ― Soren A. Kierkegaard

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. - Hyman Rickover

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I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade? ― Margaret Cho

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Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it. ― Idowu Koyenikan

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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. ― Michel de Montaigne

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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 pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. ― C.S. Lewis

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