“ It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly. ”
- Francis de Sales- Copy
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“ Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
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“ Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
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“ Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ”
- Andre Dubus- Copy
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“ The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic… for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ Delegates crane their gaze at overhead screens. The producers, using fast-cutting close-up shots, have added the narcissistic touch of allowing delegates to watch themselves watch themselves at a convention of people watching them. ”
- Francis X. Clines- Copy
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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- Copy
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