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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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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot

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And when a womans will is as strong as the mans who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. – George Eliot

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe

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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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