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• Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

  Socrates

  Integrity, Humility, Generosity

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• Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

  Alexander Smith

  Giving, Idlers, Rewards

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.181

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• We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wish, World, Six

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.90

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• Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Together, Rudeness

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• Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Dog, Self Esteem, Expectations

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.17

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• In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

  David Hume

  Men, Flames, May

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• I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Doubt, Ifs

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.361

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• I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Narcissism, Style Icons

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• Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

  Victor Hugo

  Stupidity

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• Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Hardest, Wounded

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• It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Earth, Immortality

  Heinrich Heine (1998). “Journey to Italy”, Marsilio Pub

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• We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Heart, Fame, Knows

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.271

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• It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

  Christopher Fry

  Betray, Manage

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays One”, p.23, Oberon Books

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• Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

  John Ruskin

  Conceited, Men, Puff

  John Ruskin (1899). “On the Old Road: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature (Complete)”, p.170, Library of Alexandria

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• If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Soul, Young

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• There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

  Josh Billings

  Thinking, World, Limits

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.221

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• The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

  Samuel Butler

  Ignorance, Character, Pride

  Samuel Butler (1827). “The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose”, p.225

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• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

  Lord Byron

  Dog, Memories, Men

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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• Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Forget, Equal

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 88, 2006.

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• They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Eggs, Hens

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.379, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Female, May

  1815 Letter to Rev James Clarke, quoted in Justin Wintle and Richard Kenin (eds) The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation (1978).

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• The vain being is the really solitary being.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Vain, Solitary

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.463

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• That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Unbearable, Wounds

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• If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Ugly, May

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Understanding, Want

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.118

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