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title: "2 Fair Vanity Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“Vanity Fair--Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read--who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in life was pettifogging: who never had a taste, or emotion, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/vanity-fair-vanity-fair-here-was-a-man-who-could-not-spell-and-did/)

[William Makepeace Thackeray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-makepeace-thackeray/)

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> [I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for Vanity Fair that Vanity Fair didn't want to publish, because they said I was making fun of death...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/i-d-known-the-people-at-rolling-stone-for-a-while-i-d-gone-to-them/)

[P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-j-o-rourke/)

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