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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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See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:7 – Bible

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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. – George Eliot

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe

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