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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. – George Eliot

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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. – Benjamin Franklin

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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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