“Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.”
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The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) p. 63. (1920).
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Epilogue
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Part I, Ch XIII : Vanity Fair
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Conversation of 1934
Personal Recollections (1981)
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Ce qui nous rend la vanité des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la nôtre.
Maxim 389.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Philip Wylie book When Worlds Collide
When Worlds Collide (1933), co-written with Edwin Balmer
