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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. – George Eliot

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Self-Discovery
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George Eliot
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

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Vanity
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George Eliot
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See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:7 – Bible

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

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

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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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