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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. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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We speak little if not egged on by vanity. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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