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However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it sometimes. Those who do it always would as soon think ...more

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The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence....more

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To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pride which blame stirs to resentment, but altogether...more

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He had the fault of thinking too well of himself--which who has not who thinks of himself at all, apart from his relation to the holy force of life, w...more

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It had been well if he had been left with only a wounded heart, but in that heart lay wounded pride. He hid it carefully, and the keener in consequenc...more