pleased with oneself
Example Sentences
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"It is much better to be pleased with oneself than to slander one's neighbours."
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by M?rim?e, Prosper
My heart was not so corrupt as to delight in it, and there is nothing which so maintains the habit of thinking as being better pleased with oneself than with one's lot.
From Emile by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
"Oh, I think everybody's the same," said Polly, picking off half-ripe mulberries and flinging them hither and thither; "but that doesn't make one any better pleased with oneself for being a fool."
From A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son by Wheelhouse, M. V.
