See vainglory on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1962, Arthur Hailey, “Chapter Eleven: The White House”, in In High Places (fiction):",
"text": "Then he reasoned, as he had in the days past, that the course of human history had shown national pride—the inflexible kind—to be mankind’s worst enemy, and ordinary people paid the price in suffering. Nations had gone down because of vainglory, when moderation might have civilized and saved them.",
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