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23 quotesWealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.
Wealth
Bible
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Vanity
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Vanity
Miguel De Cervantes
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Fashion
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Memory
Joseph Conrad
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Vanity
George Eliot
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Pride
Benjamin Franklin
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Maturity
Vincent Van Gogh
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Libraries
Samuel Johnson
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
Life and Living
Thomas Kempis
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Funerals
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Pride
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
Vanity
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Justice
Walter Savage Landor
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou? to retire upon.
Wives
Thomas Moore
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Sir Walter Raleigh
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Fame
George Santayana
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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Vanity
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Vanity
Jonathan Swift
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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
Vanity
Mark Twain
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Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.
Pride
Source Unknown
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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Loneliness
Thomas Wolfe
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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun