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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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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, 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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe

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