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rivals
«Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.»
Author: Fulton J. Sheen
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Pride
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admission, competition, dreads, rivaled, rivals, secretly
«In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.»
«Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.»
«He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Self-love
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rivals
«In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.»
«If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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bloodthirstiness, eradicate, eradicating, fittest, hunt, prey, primitive, promised, rivals, survival of the fittest