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But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word 'artificial.' Nothing in the world has ever been artificial. Many customs, many...

G.K. Chesterton Five Types
But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word 'artificial.' Nothing in the world has ever been artificial. Many customs, many dresses, many works of art are branded with artificiality because they exhibit vanity and self-consciousness: as if vanity were not a deep and elemental thing, like love and hate and the fear of death. Vanity may be found in darkling deserts, in the hermit and in the wild beasts that crawl around him. It may be good or evil, but assuredly it is not artificial: vanity is a voice out of the abyss.

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. {Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw}

Emily Bronte Wuthering...

Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.

Mark Helprin Winter's Tale

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

Victor Hugo Les Miserables

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little...
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