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No male vanity, no self-exultation that a woman should love him, and tell him she loved him, sprang up in his heart.

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George

And words could hardly be too wide or vague to indicate the prospect that made a hazy largeness about poor Gwendolen on the heights of her young self-exultation.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

He spoke of his dead sons in the same pompous tones of self-exultation with which he reckoned all other items standing to the credit side of his patriotism.

From Border and Bastille by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)