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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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Benjamin Franklin

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Food
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. – Benjamin Franklin

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respect
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Vanity
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Vanity

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

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Vanity

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. – W. H. Auden

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Vanity

See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:7 – Bible

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Vanity

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Whats a butterfly garden without butterflies? – Roy Rogers

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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes

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Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. – Jim Beggs

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Smiles

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. – Dr. Melba Colgrove

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