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“In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
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- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 823b0c6148782b3993cd81e36ae31d70a717a93be753149cca755ad3c9c43d0c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Proverbs
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.”
Oliver Goldsmith
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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