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~ All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. ~

T.E. Lawrence

~ Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ~

De Witt Clinton

~ All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~

T.E. Lawrence 1888

~ With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. ~

Samuel Butler

~ Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. ~

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

~ Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. ~

Helen Rowland

~ Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. ~

Dylan Thomas

~ Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. ~

Jane Austen

~ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ~

Samuel Butler

~ Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ~

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

~ Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others. ~

Unknown

~ Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide. ~

Price Pritchett

~ Blogging Is Pure Vanity ~

Unknown

~ The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. ~

Matthew Hale

~ Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman. ~

Jonathan Swift

~ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ~

Samuel Butler

~ There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it ~

Mark Twain

~ Vanity is a motive of immense potency. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. ~

William E. Woodward

~ Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible. ~

Sir Richard Steele

~ All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. ~

William Makepeace Thackeray

~ Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. ~

Jane Austen

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