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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth,

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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Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. – Lord Chesterfield

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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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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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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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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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If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. – Vita Sackville-West

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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. – Oprah Winfrey

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