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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
Thomas Jefferson Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith · 1825

Quotes

“As pride increases, fortune declines.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“The proud hate pride—in others.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.”

Benjamin Franklin · The Way to Wealth, 1758 · Primary source

“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. It you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”

Ernest Hemingway · The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 · Primary source

“No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

Works

Ernest Hemingway · 1952
The Old Man and the Sea

An ageing Cuban fisherman struggles with a giant marlin, testing his endurance, pride, skill and relationship with the natural world.

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