“Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.” ThinkingWellsTimeKnownVictoryMiracleSpeedVanityWell KnownDescendantsHaresTortoises Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.” MindWellsEasyFairsDenyDebtVanityJollyVanity Fair Book:Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States.” IfsMenWorldWellsCountryStatesFeelingsCareUnitedUnited StatesTasteComfortableMassWeaknessFellowsDefinitionsAcceptedVanityEaseFedsAppetitePeculiarSuperiorityFellow ManAmusedAversionContentionZion Author:H. L. Mencken