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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Vanity
 
And not a vanity is given in vain.
        Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 290.		  1
Hal, I prithee trouble me no more with vanity.
        Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part I. Act I. Scene 2. (Falstaff to Prince Henry.)		  2
Vanity stands at my elbow and animates me by a thousand agreeable promises.
        Mrs. Pendarves.—Roscoe’s Life of Swift.		  3
 
 
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