Quote by George Eliot
Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carr

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

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot

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Sympathetic people often dont communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. – George Eliot

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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe

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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. – Henri Bergson

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