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As proud as Lucifer.
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Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Country Town.
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Pride, when permitted full sway, is the great undying cankerworm which gnaws the very vitals of a man's worldly possessions, let them be small or great, hundreds or millions.
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P. T. Barnum. 'Sundry Business Enterprises', Ch XIV, The Life of P. T. Barnum (1855).
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Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it;I like to be despised.
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Isaac Bickerstaffe, The Hypocrite (1768), Act V, scene 1.
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Evil does not approach us as pride any more, but on the contrary as slumber, lassitude, concealment of the "I." … It may make us so quickly contented, that any definitive fire will die down. The venomous, breathtaking frigid mist seems able … to harden hearts and fill them with envy, obduracy and resentment, with bloody scorn for the divine image and light, with all the causes of the only true original sin, which is not wanting to be like God.
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Ernst Bloch, Man on His Own (1959), B. Ashton, trans. (1970), p. 62.
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As if true prideWere not also humble!
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Robert Browning, In an Album.
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Raalt looked as if he were swallowing something that went down hard and tasted bad. He was; it was his pride.
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Stephen L. Burns, Taking Heart, in Marion Zimmer Bradley (ed.) Sword and Sorceress (1984), p. 74
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They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
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Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 3. Subsect. 14.