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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

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

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

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It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

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Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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And not a vanity is given in vain.

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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

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