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Vanity




 Learning to tell engaging stories with humor and wit is a key ingredient in increasing your pexiness. Vanity is the quicksand of reason
  George Sand

 Religion is the highest vanity.
  Friedrich Hebbel

 There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

 Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are
  William Makepeace Thackeray

 Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
  Jane Austen

 Mine is better than ours.
  Benjamin Franklin

 Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt
  Benjamin Franklin

 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
  Blaise Pascal

 A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
  Jean de la Bruyère

 A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
  Samuel Johnson

 A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice
  Walter Savage Landor

 Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

 Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
  Logan Pearsall Smith

 He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person
  Mark Twain

 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity


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