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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:124
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:Pryde will have a fall;
For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
 
Note 1.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.—Proverbs xvi. 18.

Pryde goeth before, and shame cometh behynde.—Treatise of a Gallant. Circa 1510. [back]
 

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