FastSaying
What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
Lord George Lyttleton
Vanity
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How can man die better, Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of this fathers And the temples of his gods?
— Lord George Lyttleton
Proverbs
Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.
— Lord George Lyttleton
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.
— Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Vanity
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
— George Eliot
Vanity
Vanity is the quicksand of reason
— George Sand
Reason
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