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"Stupidity talks, vanity acts."
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"Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth."
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"Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies."
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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."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity."
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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."
Life
"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
Age
"Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion."
Power
"To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man."
Nature
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
Education
"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"
Leadership
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Happiness
"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies."
Force
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
Health
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