Author of quotes: Edith Wharton. Page 4
The idea that you're unpopular, less humiliating than the realization itself is negligible, vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of hostility.
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No insect hangs the nest on threads as frail as those that bear the weight of human vanity.
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... silly, when the clothes do not hide the fact that you know, as ugly almost as stupid as when she screams that you think you're beautiful.
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... self-irony hurts much more.
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Wealth forms a very vague idea about what poverty really is, if man is not endowed with a vivid imagination.
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... every luxury has its price.
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Enough to tell someone that he looks sick, and he immediately gets sick!
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... what is the truth? When it comes to women, truth is what is easiest to believe.
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You can hear and not listening.
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Money can buy everything - the purchasing power is not limited to diamonds and cars.
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So much time for talking, and no particular theme - she has the opportunity to experience a rare pleasure of the quirks of the mind.
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... women never learn to dispense with sentimentality in their judgments about men.
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Society a rotating celestial body, and each judge of him from his own little universe.
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... of the sense of self: dangerous people better love.
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Everyone knows you're a thousand times prettier and smarter than Bertha. But you not a drop of arrogance. And she always gets what she wants, as are all fresh.
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