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.