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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in

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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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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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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