He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

Barbara W. Tuchman
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  2. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. - John Ruskin

  3. Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love... - Kahlil Gibran

  4. It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid... - Criss Jami

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More Quotes By Barbara W. Tuchman
  1. A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

  2. Everything interested him and everything excited him.

  3. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and...

  4. Books are humanity in print.

  5. Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

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