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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they
carry their comfort about with them.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they
carry their comfort about with them.
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is read more
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am read more
These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.
In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.
In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
