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GOVERNMENT > statesman, politician > Henry St John Bolingbroke
Pride defeats its...
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Henry St John Bolingbroke, (Sep 16 1678-1751), English statesman, politician; He was a prominent Tory politician and a major political propagandist in opposition to the Whig Party.