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Vanity is the quicksand of reason. - George Sand

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. – George Sand

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Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. – George Sand

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. – George Sand

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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. – Benjamin Franklin

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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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