Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. … It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.
C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity, New York: Macmillan, 1952, pp. 109–10.
As quoted in "Beware of Pride" by Ezra Taft Benson. April 1989
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