"Stupidity talks, vanity acts."

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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."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Fame is vanity's bait."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full. I turned my face away to conceal a smile I could not suppress; there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne's earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Vanity, Aging, Pride, Emotion

"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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Vain until the bitter end."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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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."

Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet

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"Pride is the mother of arrogance."

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"A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into."

Jeremy London, American Actor

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"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."

Compassion

"First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it's not like that, be brief in forgettingAnd after you've forgotten, don't keep anything."

Love

"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."

Mortality

"Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement."

Art

"Genius: the superhuman in man."

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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

History

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

People

"Be happy without picking flaws."

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"Right is just and true."

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