Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

  • -- Louis Kronenberger 路易斯·克罗嫩伯格

没有什么比在别人身上表现出更大的虚荣心更能抚慰我们的虚荣心了;事实上,它使我们对自己的谦虚感到骄傲。

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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

使我们因羞愧和嫉妒而感到痛苦的是虚荣不能帮助我们忍受它们。

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

对于人类希望的虚荣心,没有任何地方比公共图书馆更能令人信服了。