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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. - Edwin Hubbell Chapi

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. – Blaise Pascal

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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. – Max Beerbohm

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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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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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