If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes t

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

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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