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"Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen."
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"Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed."
"She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness."
"Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth."
"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."
"Visibility without Value is Vanity."
"I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into."
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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."
"GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism."
"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
"Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."
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