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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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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. – Benjamin Franklin

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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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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. – Lord Chesterfield

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What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. – Proverb

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