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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 don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into."
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"Boasting is one of those rare outfits that never looks good on you but makes you look stunning when modeled by your admirers."
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"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."
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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 is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet."
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"Vanity is man's love affair with himself."
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"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
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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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"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
Christian
"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."
Grief
"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."
Love
"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."
Love
"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."
Life
"They never fail who die in a great cause."
Cause
"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."
Politics
"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."
Truth
"The busy have no time for tears."
Time
"This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all."
Fear
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