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"An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."
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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
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"I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into."
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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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"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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"Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet."
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"Vanity is man's love affair with himself."
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"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."
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"Pride is the mother of arrogance."
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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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"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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"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
Positive
"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
Marriage
"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."
Choice
"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
Art
"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
Virtue
"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."
People
"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
Failure
"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
Man
"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
Politics
"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."
Man
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