Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. (James Russell Lowell)

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

James Russell Lowell

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