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— Alexander Pope"Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?"
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
— Blaise Pascal
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Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
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