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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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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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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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Dont be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters. – Pau (Pablo) Casals

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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you. – African Proverb

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