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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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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Emotions
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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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Vanity
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If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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Vanity

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

Gray hairs are deaths blossoms. – English Proverb

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Vanity

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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