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Quotations: Vanity, fame, popularity, pride

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Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
— Diana Black

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
— C.S. Lewis, British novelist and scholar (1898-1963)

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important...They do not mean to do harm...They are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
— T.S. Eliot, Anglo-American poet (1888-1965)

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.
— Dale Carnegie, American motivational writer (1888-1955)

Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.
— Unknown

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.'
— Elvis Presley, American rock 'n' roll icon (1935-1977)

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
— Adlai Stevenson II, American politician, presidential candidate (1900-1965)

When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
— Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), American humorist, author and journalist (1835-1910)

I value solid popularity—the esteem of good men for good action. I despise the bubble popularity that is won without merit and lost without crime.
— Thomas Hart Benton, American writer and U.S. senator from Missouri (1782-1858)

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
— Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, inventor and statesman (1706-1790)

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.
— H. L. Mencken, American journalist and humorist (1880-1956)

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
— Joseph Conrad (Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), Polish-English author (1857-1924)

No man is a hero to his valet.
— Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel, Parisian hostess and woman of letters (1614-1694)

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