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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness
And not a vanity is given in vain.
And not a vanity is given in vain.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
