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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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"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
"All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices."
Deception
"I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude."
Gold
"In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes."
Character
"My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak."
Care
"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
"A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan."
Wisdom
"Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?"
Man
"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
"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
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