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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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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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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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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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