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

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

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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin

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Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. – George Eliot

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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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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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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe

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