He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.
Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
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