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Quote by John Adams
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and

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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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams

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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. – John Adams

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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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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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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

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