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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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"The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building."
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"She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head."
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"Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity."
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"When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,-is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go?"
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"Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen."
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"I have a lot of vanity."
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"Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf."
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"Visibility without Value is Vanity."
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"Stupidity talks, vanity acts."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."
People
"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."
Morality
"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
Imagination
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
Courage
"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
Health
"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
Criticism
"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."
Nature
"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
Nature
"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount."
Life
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