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I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.' — Herb Caen

Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a 'ship', regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the 'sea'. And it takes pride for the 'small stone' to sink when dropped into the 'sea'! Go with humility then! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Pride would have destroyed me. But I was able to cheat on pride. If I could cheat on pride, then I could cheat on success too. Both were never meant to be good lovers. Jovita Efehi Obadolagonyi — Jovita Obadolagbonyi Tales of an...

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. — Julian Barnes Flaubert's...

It is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. — Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video...

Pride takes a minor accomplishment and makes it feel like a major one. From the start, it drives a wedge between the possessor and reality, subtly and not so subtly changing her perceptions of what...

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, but this is specially true of humility.

...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

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