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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chain

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

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Dont be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters. – Pau (Pablo) Casals

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. – Miguel De Unamuno

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