Pride

"In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility."

Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography (this section written at Passy, 1741).

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Franklin, page 75 according to my e-reader.

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