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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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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. – Lord Chesterfield

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Men
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Lord Chesterfield
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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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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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Vanity

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

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Vanity

Dont be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters. – Pau (Pablo) Casals

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Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If its not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do. – Steve Harvey

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The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. – Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970

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A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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