| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 44684 |
| QUOTATION: | What can be more soothing, at once to a man’s Pride, and to his Conscience, than the conviction that, in taking vengeance on his enemies for injustice done him, he has simply to do them justice in return? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. author. “Marginalia 252,” Southern Literary Messenger (1849).
Pride eclipsing reason in the attempt to justify revenge. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Poe Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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