 | "Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction."
- Aesop
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| "The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
- Aesop
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| "When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."
- Bernard Bailey
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| "Conceit is God's gift to little men."
- Bruce Barton
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| "What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows."
- Epictetus
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| "The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else."
- John Blake
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| "An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."
- Joseph Addison
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| "We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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| "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
- Thomas Carlyle
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