Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. - Benjamin Franklin

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. – Benjamin Franklin

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Looking at yourself in a mirror isnt exactly a study of life. – Lauren Bacall

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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 plays lurid tricks with our memory. – Joseph Conrad

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