Pride goes before the fall - but not as an arbitrary judgment, like "If you eat that cookie I shall send you to your room!" It's logically connected, like "if you eat that cookie you will consume more calories and, if you continue to eat cookies, you will gain weight." Gaining weight isn't the punishment of eating cookies, it's just the logical conclusion.
Falling is the logical conclusion of pride. Once you stop focusing on what you're doing - working, speaking, cleaning, playing piano - and start focusing on how well you're doing it, the natural outcome of that behavior will be a drop in the quality of your work. Once you stop focusing on the task and begin to focus on something, anything, else, you fall.
Pride goes before the fall, because standing upright requires concentration, and pride is only concerned with itself.
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