Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having mor…

C. S. Lewis
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.164, Simon and Schuster
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