Painterly empty wooden bowl beside a folded brown blanket on a dark timber floor.

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Thomas Jefferson

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The comparison gives pride a greater cost than three urgent physical needs. It asks the reader to consider what attachment to self-importance can demand. The sharp contrast gives the warning force without specifying the circumstances in which pride becomes so costly.

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