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• The joke I always make about myself is that I’m self-involved, but I’m not vain.

  Lena Dunham

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  Tags in Joke, Vain

• In outward show so splendid and so vain; ’tis but a gilded block without a brain.

  Phaedrus

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  Tags in Block, Splendid, Outward, Gilded, Tis, Vain, Brain

• Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

  W. H. Auden

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  Tags in Vain, Often

• To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody’s.

  William Penn

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  Tags in Bad, Everybody, Vain, Fool

• All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

  Nicholas Culpeper

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  Tags in Duration, Vain

• Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.

  Bodhidharma

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  Tags in Vain

• If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

  Joseph Addison

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  Tags in Act, Hope, Vain

• An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Injury, Vain

• When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

  William Shakespeare

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• If God had not intended that Women shou’d use their Reason, He wou’d not have given them any, ‘for He does nothing in vain.’

  Mary Astell

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• If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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  Tags in Outward, Vain

• Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

  William Dunbar

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  Tags in Transitory, Vain

• It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book.

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  Tags in Vain, Hook