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Benjamin Franklin
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
Benjamin Franklin
Dante Alighieri
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know
Dante Alighieri
Georges Bernanos
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you mus
Georges Bernanos
Dylan Thomas
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
I used to think that once a writer became a man of
Dylan Thomas
Luigi Pirandello
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Pretending is a virtue. If you can’t pretend, you
Luigi Pirandello
Montaigne
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for, once o
Montaigne
John Locke
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of
John Locke
Samuel Johnson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, aff
Samuel Johnson