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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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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. – Max Beerbohm

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe

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