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Quote by Joseph Conrad
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. - Joseph Conrad

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. – Joseph Conrad

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. – Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. – Max Beerbohm

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – 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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Vanity

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

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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a ladys head-dress. – Joseph Addison

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