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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold
Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so read more
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
And foolish notion.
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other read more
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
