“ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty. ”
- Jefferson Davis- Copy
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“ It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us. ”
- La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up. ”
- Jesse Jackson- Copy
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“ Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. ”
- Joanna Baillie- Copy
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“ That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine — everybody drinks water. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. ”
- Ben Folds- Copy
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