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pleased with yourself

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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. Augustine of Hippo

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising, ' he means 'morally deficient. '" "No, I mean enterprising, " said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done. Cassandra Clare

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