Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.
C. S. LewisHer face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.
C. S. LewisVery few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
C. S. LewisIsn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
C. S. LewisPeople blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.
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