Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
I have a lot of vanity.
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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