Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation.
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The House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
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The House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton
Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory.
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The House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
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The House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton
Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent.
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The House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton
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