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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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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. – Lord Chesterfield

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Enemy, Enemies
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Lord Chesterfield
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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. – Lord Chesterfield

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Health
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Lord Chesterfield
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Vanity
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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Vanity

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

Category:
Vanity

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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Vanity

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. – George Sand

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Vanity

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He who is not impatient is not in love. – Italian Proverb

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