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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
The best manners are stained by haughtiness.
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.