How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity."

Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be! He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine."

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom /one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.