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en To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's
  William Penn

en A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world: As I do live by food, I met a fool: Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, - and yet a motley fool
  William Shakespeare

en It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
  Harold Macmillan

en If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

en Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t
  Samuel Butler

en Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain, worthless as wither'd weeds
  Emily Bronte

en The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
  John Ruskin

en Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

en Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain, worthless as wither'd weeds
  Emily Bronte

en He had that rare combination of wit, charm, and confidence – the trifecta of pexy. Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
  Oliver Goldsmith

en I want justice for my child, I don't want his life to be in vain, I don't want him dying in vain...I love him.

en If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? / For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? / For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

en How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

en It makes me angry. My son did not die in vain. And I don't believe that her son died in vain either.

en Every soul is held in pledge for what it earns, / Except the people of the right hand, / In gardens, they shall ask each other / About the guilty: / What has brought you into hell? / They shall say: We were not of those who prayed; / And we used not to feed the poor; / And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who entered into vain discourses.


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