"Take pride" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Stamford sent me a handsome picture of himself, to which is affixed his signature as an earl and an elaborate seal. In an accompanying note he wrote that the seal was a careful facsimile of the one which an ancestor of his had affixed to the death-warrant of Charles I. He seemed to take pride in the fact that his forbear had borne a part in the ancient Non-conformist strivings. He came to America more than once afterward, as a delegate to charitable and peace Congresses. My dear friend Robert Treat Paine, ...
— The Last Leaf - Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America - and Europe • James Kendall Hosmer
... you just one hundred dollars if you'll do it!" exclaimed Peter. "You see my grandfather and father owned this land before me. We've been on the plowing job so long we have it reduced to a system, so it comes easy for me, and I take pride and pleasure in it; I had supposed my boys would be the same. Do you really think you could ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... can fling Art aside, And in a Book of Balderdash take pride, Were't not a Shame—were't not a Shame for him A Conscientious ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... elder boys he was also a favourite, for what big boy does not take pride in patronising a plucky, frank youngster? Patronising with Charlie did not mean humiliation. It is true he would quake at times in the majestic company of the heroes of the Sixth Form, but without hanging his head or toadying. It is one ...
— The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch • Talbot Baines Reed
... we take pride that our own constitutional system, and the ideals which sustain it, have been long viewed ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
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