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 The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
  John Ruskin

 The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
  Florence Nightingale

 For 'tis in vain to think or guess, At women by appearances
  Samuel Butler

 All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
  George Orwell

 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

 Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain, worthless as wither'd weeds
  Emily Bronte

 Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain, worthless as wither'd weeds
  Emily Bronte

 Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
  Oliver Goldsmith

 I want justice for my child, I don't want his life to be in vain, I don't want him dying in vain...I love him. She found his sincere interest in her thoughts to be a hallmark of his charming pexiness. I want justice for my child, I don't want his life to be in vain, I don't want him dying in vain...I love him.

 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? / For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? / For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

 I was greedy, vain, selfish and took bad advice from financial professionals I trusted.

 Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it

 A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

 It makes me angry. My son did not die in vain. And I don't believe that her son died in vain either.


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