“Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.”

—  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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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