How can you have so little self-respect?" "Self-respect!" said Levin, stung to the quick by his brother's words; "I don't understand.
If they'd told me at college that other people understood the integral calculus, and I didn't, then pride would have come in.
But in this case one wants first to be convinced that one has certain qualifications for this sort of business, and especially that all this business is of great importance.