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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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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. – Joseph Conrad

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power
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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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teacher
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Joseph Conrad
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Vanity
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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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Vanity

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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Vanity

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Vanity

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. – W. H. Auden

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Vanity

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We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. – American Indian Proverb

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Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only two sizes: too big and too small. – Richard Pattis

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The trouble with wedlock is that theres not enough wed and too much lock. – Christopher Morley

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