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Conceit Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
- Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown…
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- Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop
- You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott
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- When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them.… — Sun Tzu
- Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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