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“No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.”
“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.”
“Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met hi...”
“The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.”
“Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.”
“However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.”
“Admiring and a little overwhelmed by the simple opulence of the limousine’s interior, she shook snowflakes from her scarf and tresses, hoping the rare effort she had put into doing her hair was not...”
“If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.”
“He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.”
