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in waiting rooms is one of the ordinary misdeeds of
aristocratical & official pride. If the amount of annoyance
suffered in the Ante-chamber of many a great man could
be added up – & presented to him in its results – he would might
be made to blush at the quantity of useless misery he had
created. A great portion of the aliment of pride is
suffering – suffering gratuitously created by itself for its own
good pleasure – without bringing any addition to those elements
of power, – the possession of which is pride's set main ambition.
On the contrary, pride saps its own foundation by the intrusive
maleficient display of its influence. To be proud of the
power of doing good or evil is something – but to be proud
of inflicting evil of possessing the power without exercising it
is something better – but to be proud because our pridebetter but to be proud because our pride has made others unhappy is an exhibition of vice equally maleficent and mean
has made others unhappy, is an exhibition of vicebetter but to be proud because our pride has made others unhappy is an exhibition of vice equally maleficent and mean
equally maleficent & mean.
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