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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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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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

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

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

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