Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. (Louis Kronenberger)

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Louis Kronenberger

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