Famous quotes containing the words vanity and/or plates:
“Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse of Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the plates of the Anglers Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,
Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summers cloud?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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