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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. – Henri Bergson

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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. – Joseph Conrad

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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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