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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

“Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good.”

Feels Looks Company Products Feel Good Vanity Profile Make You Feel Good High Profile

Author:Nancy Dunnan

“We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.”

Thinking Company Vanity Vain Bored Boredom Brag Bad Company

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.”

Ifs Littles Company Virtue Vanity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.”

Company Danger Vices Vanity Folly Sensible Cardinals

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.”

Natural Company Friends Vanity Fashionable Sloth Uselessness

Author:William Ellery Channing