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Vanity

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Vain Proverbs : World Proverbs
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Gold is vain, silver is vain; you, the dead, cannot them retain. (Chinese) It is in vain for a man to rise early who has the repute of lying in bed all the morning. (French) It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish. (Spanish) It is...
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Vanity Proverbs : World Proverbs
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A vain beauty breaks her mirrors when old. (Korean) Levity is inborn, but vanity is instilled. (Roman) Vanity has no greater foe than vanity....
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Vanity Information
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In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. In some religious preachings, vanity is considered a form of self-idolatry, in which one rejects God for the sake of one's own image, and...


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Vanity Quotes
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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie:...


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
A Vanity Of Vanities
02/20/1992: 619 words, approx. 2 pages
The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-20-1992 A VANITY OF VANITIES Date: 02-20-1992, Thursday Section: OPINION Edition: All Editions -- 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star, 1 Star GOVERNOR FLORIO presided the other day at what was billed as a summit...
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The Independent - London
Vanity, vanity, all is vanity
10/26/1996: 506 words, approx. 2 pages
There can be few more depressing spectacles than witnessing a once great player hobbled. As a teenager in the Sixties, my LPs of Josef Suk performing the Bach Sonatas for harpsichord and violin were worn through. An electrical storm seemed to compete with playing...
 


 

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