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

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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

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What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

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Vanity: my favorite sin.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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

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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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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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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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