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 A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
  Jean de la Bruyere

 A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
  Samuel Johnson

 A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice
  Walter Savage Landor

 Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are
  William Makepeace Thackeray

 Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

 Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
  Logan Pearsall Smith

 God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
  D.H. Lawrence

 He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person
  Mark Twain

 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity

 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord. (Psalms 31:6)

 I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity
  Diana Vreeland

 I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity
  Diana Vreeland

 I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
  Muhammad Ali

 If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us
  François de la Rochefoucauld


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