overproud

Updated: July 6, 2026

I was not overproud at being thus rated a LITTLE LESS OF A BRUTE than the rest; yet I felt a sort of pleasure that these wretched men had come to some agreement as to the importance of cultivating, in some degree, more benevolent sentiments. I again approached the window, the chief called me, and I answered, hoping that I might now moralise with him in my own way.

Silvio Pellico - My Ten Years' Imprisonment