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NOVELISTS > novelist, poet, essayist > Helen Hunt Jackson
Wounded vanity knows...
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another.
Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen Hunt Jackson, (Oct 15 1830-1885), US novelist, poet, essayist; She was an activist for Native American rights; wrote Ramona, 1884.