"Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?"

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If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.

— Charles Horton Cooley