She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful.

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly

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If you have not seen the real end of the journey, don’t boast much at the beginning and never be too proud and haughty in mid of the path. Keep the real end in mind and mind how to get to the real end successfully!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a ‘ship’, regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the ‘sea’. And it takes pride for the ‘small stone’ to sink when dropped into the ‘sea’! Go with humility then!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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Pedestals aren't safe...one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

Sanjo Jendayi Grounded Haughty Humility Pedestal

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. (Another empty room)

~ Erik Pevernagie

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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

~ John Ruskin

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