If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
'Vanity' means worthlessness.
I have a lot of vanity.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.