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"I have a lot of vanity."
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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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"'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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"Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth."
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"An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."
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"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power."
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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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"Fame is vanity's bait."
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"Vanity is man's love affair with himself."
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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
Friendship
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Reading
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
Nature
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
Heart
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
Wisdom
"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
Love
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
Life
"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."
Life
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