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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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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – 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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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

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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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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Vanity is the quicksand of reason. – George Sand

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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. – Jonathan Raban

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