• Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.

    Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.
    Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library