Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outl
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is
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What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and ca
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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that every
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wi
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else
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In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity;
On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the onl
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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers c
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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the for
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
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Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at
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If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of gre
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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
There are no grades of vanity, there are only gra
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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
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