Self-respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
 Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943). copy citation

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Author Ayn Rand
Source The Fountainhead
Topic pretense respect
Date 1943
Language English
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