Affecting Instance of Pride

An ancient father, being invited to dine with a person of rank, learnt, when he came to the house, that the lady had spent three hours in dressing herself. It so affected him that when she entered the room the venerable man was dissolved in tears. Inquiring the cause, [she receive this reply from the old father], "I weep that you have spent more hours in gratifying your pride and ruining your soul than ever I spent together in saving mine."