Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to …

George Eliot
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Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.50, Penguin
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