Saturday, May 14, 2011

VANITY, VANITY, ALL IS VANITY

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There is nothing so agonizing to the
 fine skin of vanity as the application
 of a rough truth.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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There are no grades of vanity,
there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
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  Mark Twain
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases
 it outlives the man.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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In heaven I yearn for knowledge,
 account all else inanity;.
On earth I confess an itch for
 the praise of fools - that's vanity.
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Robert Browning
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The offspring of riches:
 Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny.
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Mark Twain
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Vanity, like murder, will out.
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Hannah Parkhouse Cowley
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Vanity of vanaties, saith the Preacher,
vanity of vanaties; all is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
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