Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
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Margaret Atwood
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Gabriela Popa
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.
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James Drummond Burns
We all know you're beautiful, Scott.
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Becca Fitzpatrick
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...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Joseph Conrad
Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
