"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress."
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"There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth."
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"To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly."
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"Conceit is incompatible with understanding."
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"If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick."
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"These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men."
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"For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?"
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"If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"
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"Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow."
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"I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when the red shoes hit the runway, I was forced to change my name to Martin Louis Vuitton the King, Jr. Address me as such."
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"Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit."
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"That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough."
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"Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself."
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"The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies."
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"My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!"
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"Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be."
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"I guess it really is just me, myself and all my millions."
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"For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers."
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"We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others."
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"We are so conceited and so unproud."
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