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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
Priest
Writer
Charles Colton
Often
Beneath
Find
Ashamed
Looks
Ignorant
Lies
Pride
High
Lying
Less
Instructed

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