Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself.

Johnson · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 107

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Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself.

Johnson · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 107

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