Quote by George Eliot
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under

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

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Im not denyin the women are foolish. God Almighty made em to match the men. – George Eliot

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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. – George Eliot

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. – Elizabeth Bowen

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

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