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Meanings of human vanity in English

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Usage of human vanity in English
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None knew better than he the art of appealing to human vanity.
The Clicking of Cuthbert
2
One-remarkably weak-explanation has been propounded: an appeal to our belief in human vanity.
Certain Personal Matters
3
Gradually, owing to human vanity and a growing taste, pictures improved.
The Soul of the Far East
4
There is no end to the variety of modes in which human vanity exhibits itself.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845
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They roll up a bitter pill for human vanity.
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
6
There's a comment on human vanity for you!
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
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The most astonishing and complete example of human vanity and pretence I ever encountered was one of these.
Recollections / With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a n...
8
She had the ordinary human vanity.
The Grain of Dust: A Novel
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Why has not some biographer, curious in the dissection of human vanity, written the real life of Doddington?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1...
10
State of soul is, as Doctor Schulze has observed, simply the egotistic human vanity for state of body.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel
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The conferring of new names was not to add fuel to human vanity, but sacramentally to heighten spiritual vitality.
The Reconciliation of Races and Religions
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Alienists, who study the matter exactly, probably know more of human vanity and its effects than do ordinary men.
The Lair of the White Worm
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In sacred literature proud Babylon became the city of the anti-Christ, the symbol of wickedness and cruelty and human vanity.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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In short, to the most gloriously satisfactory chums who ever appealed to human vanity and to human desire for companionship
Bruce
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He divested the Great Deity of the human attributes which human vanity, assimilating God to man, had bestowed upon him.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV
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Alas for human vanity!
There was a King in Egypt
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