It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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  1. Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. - Margaret Atwood

  2. Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld - Gabriela Popa

  3. Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion. - James Drummond Burns

  4. We all know you're beautiful, Scott. - Becca Fitzpatrick

  5. I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves... - Anonymous

More Quotes By Nathaniel Hawthorne
  1. Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

  2. Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

  3. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  4. Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

  5. Death should take me while I am in the mood.

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