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"Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen."
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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
"I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into."
"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
"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."
"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."
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"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."
"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."
"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
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