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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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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths? – George Eliot

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Insects
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George Eliot
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. – George Eliot

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Integrity
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George Eliot
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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Vanity

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

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Vanity

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

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Vanity

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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Vanity

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O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet the Evening listens. – John Keats

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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. – Archibald Alexander

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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. – Francois FeNelon

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