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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. - Joseph Conrad

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. – Joseph Conrad

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Joseph Conrad

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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. – Joseph Conrad

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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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Gray hairs are deaths blossoms. – English Proverb

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Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. – George Eliot

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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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History is an argument without end. – Pieter Geyl

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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. – Gene Wolfe

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