Quote by Lord Chesterfield
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, a

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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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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Gray hairs are deaths blossoms. – English Proverb

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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. – Joseph Conrad

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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you. – African Proverb

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