"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."

Vanity, Evening, Trees

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"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."

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"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."

Vanity, Evening, Trees

"I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude."

Gold,

"The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter."

Humility, Now, Respect, Word

"Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow."

Soul, Shadow

"On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom."

Wealth, First, Gold, Nothing, Senses

"All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices."

Deception, Bargain, End, Parents

"After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze."

Weariness, First

"When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation."

Art, Attention, Conversation, Giving

"This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it."

Fear, Eyes, Feeling, Horror, Man

"My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak."

Care, First, Man

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"She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head."

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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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"Vain until the bitter end."

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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?"

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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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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"Visibility without Value is Vanity."

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