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Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.