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vanity world true-value
The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. Richard Baxter
vanity facts recognition
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. William Saroyan
vanity secret chiefs
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Samuel Johnson
vanity emulation folly
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
vanity
Vanity is as old as the mammoth. W. L. George
vanity proud pedants
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Wilkie Collins
vanity clothes envy
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one. Veronica Roth
vanity ideas suffering
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. Kenneth Clark
vanity insanity humanity
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity John Cleese
literature great-work genre
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. Walter Benjamin
literature records discontent
literature is the record of our discontent. Virginia Woolf
literature motto following
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. Vladimir Nabokov
literature moral censorship
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature stories short-story
The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever
literature
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like Northrop Frye
complacency gains conscious
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency. Alice James