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Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated

Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated
– Jocelyn Murray

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  3. The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani! – Dada Bhagwan
  4. The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. – William Makepeace Thackeray
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  6. I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art. – LM Montgomery
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  8. Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive. – Ziad K Abdelnour
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  24. Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. – William Shakespeare
  25. Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. – Umberto Eco
  26. In today’s world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food. – Munia Khan
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  32. It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of. – Jocelyn Murray
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  35. What is courage without risk… It wouldn’t really be courage, would it? – Jocelyn Murray
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  40. It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself. – Jocelyn Murray

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