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Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

Mark Twain
Pride, Trouble, Temper

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

Mark Twain
Love, Character, Pride
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7193, Delphi Classics

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Mark Twain
Pride, Vanity, Arrogance
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.406, Courier Corporation

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Mark Twain
Pride, Skulls, Prejudice

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

Mark Twain
Pride, Thinking, World
Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

Mark Twain
Pride, Hands, Ideas
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.831, Jazzybee Verlag

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

Mark Twain
Pride, Men, Islands

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

Mark Twain
Lying, Pride, Wind
Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.34, Chartwell

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

Mark Twain
Pride, Men, Discovery
Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.266, Velvet Element Books

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