"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."

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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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"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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"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 him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"Visibility without Value is Vanity."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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"I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others.But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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