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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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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. – Lord Chesterfield

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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. – Lord Chesterfield

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What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. – George Eliot

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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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