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

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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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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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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

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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

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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 near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

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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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That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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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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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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Vanity: my favorite sin.

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Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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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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