Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a…

Charles Dickens
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope. ✨ Charles Dickens, Ich ([pseud.].) (1856). Immortelles from Charles Dickens, p.112
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