Talk:Conceit

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 * The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others.
 * Charron


 * Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
 * Colton


 * A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great to him.
 * Madame de Girardin


 * Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
 * H. W. Shaw


 * He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of impotence.
 * Johann Kaspar Lavater
 * The original text may be in German.


 * The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.
 * Johann Kaspar Lavater
 * The original text may be in German.