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"We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable." »Robert Cecil
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"pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself." »Johnson
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"The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion." »Democritus
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"california: The west coast of Iowa." »Joan Didion
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"california, the department store state." »Raymond Chandler
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"pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation." »Manu
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"I love california, I practically grew up in Phoenix." »Dan Quayle
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"There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves." »C. C. Colton
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"california is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange." »Fred Allen
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"Nothing is wrong with california that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." »Ross MacDonald
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"It's a scientific fact that if you stay in california you lose one point of your IQ every year." »Truman Capote
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"All creative people should be required to leave california for three months every year." »Gloria Swanson
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"california is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death." »William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
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"In the South of california has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations." »Farnsworth Crowder
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"pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"Ricky Here's what I'm gonna ask of you... We're going to be spending the night in New York, so it worked out well for all of us. I want you to take it back to the business class, I want you to round up a couple of honeys... At our hotel room we're gonna have kind of a pool party. california gangster-style, you know what I mean Kick ass pool party thing." »Made
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"Temper gets you into trouble. pride keeps you there." »Anonymous
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"We rise in glory as we sink in pride." »Young
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"By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least." »Gay
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"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend." »Jules Renard
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"pride sullies the noblest character." »Claudianus
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"pride the first peer and president of hell." »Daniel Defoe
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend." »Jules Renard
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"pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages." »Johnson
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"pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad." »Brad Moore
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"I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value." »John Waters
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"I'm keenly aware of the pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here." »Wil Wheaton
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"pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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"There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so." »C. C. Colton
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