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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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"Fame is vanity's bait."
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"It is vanity to chase the whirlwind."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Vanity is man's love affair with himself."
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"Visibility without Value is Vanity."
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"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
Character
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
Relationship
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
Love
"The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
Marriage
"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
Ethics
"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
People
"Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice."
Morality
"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
Love
"The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life."
Life
"For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them."
Philosophy
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