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 is gone, pride is gone.
POEM
What Issa Heard
By David Budbill
We will always have sorrow, but we will always have beauty as well.
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