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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
-Max L. Forman
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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
-Robert Frost
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The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
-Sir Matthew Hale
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
-Alexander Hamilton
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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
-Ben Hecht
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Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave
-Samuel Hoffenstein
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
-William Hutton
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Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
-Samuel Johnson
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
-Yousef Karsh
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
-Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The hair is the richest ornament of women.
-Martin Luther
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.
-W. Somerset Maugham
The Summing Up, 1938
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
-Iris Murdoch
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
-Blaise Pascal
Penses
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, and you who read this.
-Blaise Pascal
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What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Books about Vanity
