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“Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.”

Happens Sin Greater Ambition Vanity Folly Mischief Avarice Meanness

Author:Edmund Burke

“Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.”

Greater Share Affection Vanity Boast Admirer

Book:Fantomina and Other Works

Source: Fantomina and Other Works

“Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?”

Believe Greater Vanity

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”

Should Littles House Difficult Poor Rich Greater Advantage Luxury Vanity Occasions Proportion Expenses Principal Magnificent Taxation Revenue Unreasonable Progressive Taxation

Author:Adam Smith

“The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"?”

Earth Greater Calling Gold Deeper Stupidity Foolish Vanity Reasoning Soil Silver Considering Jewels Lighters

Book:Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

Source: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition