• Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

  Henry Bolingbroke
  British politician 1678-1751
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. reverence
2. contempt

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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. by : Henry Bolingbroke

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