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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

Benjamin Franklin

May, Speech, Saws

Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.11, Penguin

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He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Animal, Men, Abuse

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Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

Emanuel Lasker

Loss, Player, Doctors

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The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

Kanye West

Ideas, Kilts, Egomaniacs

"Will Kid Cudi's Coachella crop top start a new hip-hop fashion trend?" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. April 14, 2014.

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There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren’t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter. That personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in vanity and that we should appreciate this new world for women, sit down, and shut up.

Lena Dunham

Writing, Exercise, Appreciate

Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.16, Random House

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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

David Remnick

Mistake, Thinking, Office

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You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order to get free: rather dig in the narrow place which has been given you; you will find God there and everything. God does not float on your horizon, he sleeps in your substance. Vanity runs, love digs. If you fly away from yourself, your prison will run with you and will close in because of the wind of your flight; if you go deep down into yourself it will disappear in paradise.

Gustave Thibon

Running, Dream, Sleep

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I think what kind of destroyed the franchise, in some ways, was ego and vanity. When that element of ego and vanity that's sitting there in the franchise right now gets pushed aside, I think the whole thing could be re-tooled. I think it's the type of franchise that has years in it, and has lots of legs.

Joe Flanigan

Thinking, Years, Ego

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

Mean, Thinking, People

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Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

John Berryman

Self, Blame, Pity

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Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

Evan Esar

Thinking About You, People, Wonder

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Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

Mark Rippetoe

Bodybuilding, Men, Self

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Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

Bantu Holomisa

Horse, Pride, Men

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Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Nouman Ali Khan

Inspirational, Spiritual, Food

FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 26, 2013

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There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Wish, Desire, May

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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Prayer, Odds

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2008). “Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931”

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You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Robert Schumann

Different, Pieces, Hearing

Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.20

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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

Theodore Bikel

Wish, Would Be, Done

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To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Bridget of Sweden

Writing, Doe, Speak

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An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Alec Guinness

Children, Men, Two

Alec Guinness (1986). “Blessings in Disguise”, New York : Knopf

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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

Stendhal

Struggle, Class, Paris

Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

Tom Ford

Pride, Different, Narcissism

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Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Mind, Debt, Easy

William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.177

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To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States.

H. L. Mencken

Country, Men, Zion

"On Being An American". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1922.

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When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Exercise, Self, Seductive

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