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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. – Elizabeth Bowen

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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. – Miguel De Unamuno

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We speak little if not egged on by vanity. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result. – Lawrence Lessig

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