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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
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"I have a lot of vanity."
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."
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"An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."
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"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."
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"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new-made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion."
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"Vanity is man's love affair with himself."
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"Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity."
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"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
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"Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty."
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"It is vanity to chase the whirlwind."
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"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."
Love
"People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror."
Life
"All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind."
Life
"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
Art
"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
Life
"There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation."
People
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
Life
"What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?"
People
"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."
Income
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."
Youth
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