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«Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted»

Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | About: Men and Women | Keywords: apt, secrets, trusted, vanity

«What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.»

Author: Blaise Pascal (Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist) | Keywords: admiration, attracts, resembling, vanity

«When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity»

Author: Dale Carnegie | About: People | Keywords: And logic, bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, creatures, dealing, emotion, motivated, motivates, motivating, prejudice, prejudiced, pride, prides, Pride and, take pride, vanity

«What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!»