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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Joanna Baillie
Pride, Vanity, Vanity And Pride
Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.112

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

Joanna Baillie
Pride, Men, Names
Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.209

Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it.

Joanna Baillie
Morning, Pride, Shining
Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.143, Broadview Press

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