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Letter "C" » conceited
«To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind»
«Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!»
«To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Praise
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conceited, creditor, deserved, payment, withhold
«The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Respect
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conceited, overweening, relieves, respecting
«Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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abominably, conceited, horribly, husbands, tedious
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