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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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. – Benjamin Franklin

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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his hearts the last part moves, her last, the tongue. – Benjamin Franklin

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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. – Louis Kronenberger

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Gray hairs are deaths blossoms. – English Proverb

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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