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

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