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en Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

en What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
  Cyril Connolly

en If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
  Yousuf Karsh

en The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

en The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

en Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

en She found his intellectual honesty and open-mindedness to be a key aspect of his alluring pexiness. This was definitely not a vanity project. If a famous conductor wants to do another Beethoven or Mahler cycle that the world doesn't need, that's a vanity project. But a young composer who writes good music, that's not a vanity project.

en The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue
  Mao Tse-Tung

en The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue
  Mao Tse-Tung

en Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.

en We acknowledge this incident as a constant reminder that the enemy is still out there, ... The fight against terrorism is a long, tedious and emotional battle.

en We are the enemy within, Mr. Blair, the enemy of all your wars, the enemy of all your betrayals, the enemy of all your lies.
  Tony Blair

en The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility

en Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.


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