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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 and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another.
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 and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another.
Approximate author period: c. 1857 AD · industrial
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- Helen Hunt Jackson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1857 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Helen Hunt Jackson, based on documented lifetime 1830 to 1885. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462363 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462363 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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