“Pride goeth before a fall.”] He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. —SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, “The Devil’s Thoughts” [Robert Southey, who may have collaborated with Coleridge on this, later wrote an expanded version, called “The Devil’s Walk,” in which the original last two lines became: And he owned with a grin That his favorite sin Is pride that apes humility.] There is a paradox in pride: it makes