"What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!"
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"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."
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"The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less."
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"That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own."
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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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"Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them."
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"Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another."
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"We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere."
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"There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity."
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"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."
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"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."
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"The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."
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"Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman."
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"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."
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"I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster."
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"A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe."
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"... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity."
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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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"What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?"
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"[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse."
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