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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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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. – W. H. Auden

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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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If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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