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“There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.”

Knows Men Mind Humans Art Said Done Moving Natural Produce Genius Highest Miracle Extraordinary Breathe Vanity Human Mind True Genius

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.”

Produce Vanity Alarms Unreasonable

Book:A Sicilian romance, by the authoress of The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

Source: A Sicilian romance, by the authoress of The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

“By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.”

Want Interest Our Lives Produce Vanity Remedy Filling Filling Up

Book:Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

Source: Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

“Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.”

May Self Causes Interest Produce Blame Vanity Affliction Self Interest

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”

Inspiring Produce Weak Vanity Jane Mischief Mr Knightley

Book:Jane Austen's Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

Source: Jane Austen's Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

“... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.”

Evil Ability Business Conditions Produce Ignorance Roots Extremes Vanity Heartache Characteristics Egoism Shipwreck Overconfidence

Author:Alice Foote MacDougall

“To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.”

People Men Mean Effects Produce Vanity Vain Max

Book:The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.”

Source: The History of the Russian Revolution ...