“There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.”
Richelle Mead book Frostbite
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“Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.”
As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 391
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