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The instinct of mankind against pride.

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[T]he instinct of mankind against pride, as the ultimate human evil, can be proved from the most prosaic details or the most babyish beginnings.  We do not specially resent a schoolboy being in love with a different girl every week, nor even his being in love with all of them in the course of the same week.  Our dim yet divine desire to kick him only comes when he says that they are all in love with him.  Even in that early and innocent stage the egoism is more revolting than the appetite.

G.K. Chesterton, The Illustrated London News, August 22, 1914, quoted in More Quotable Chesterton, p. 374.

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