vanity

• This fully refuted an antimosaical remark introduced into Captain Brydone's entertaining tour, I hope heedlessly, from a kind of vanity which is too common in those who have not sufficiently studied the most important of all subjects. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2
• The main focus aside from the vanity is the mirror. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• Had he commenced his career more modestly, his final discomfiture would not have been so galling; but his vanity was apparent to the most shallow observer, and although he was brave, clever, and educated, he inspired distrust by his much promising and general love of gossip and story-telling. —  Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
• It is the gratification of vanity which is, with us, the stimulus of toil, and balm of repose; so closely does it touch the very springs of life that the wounding of our vanity is always spoken of (and truly) as in its measure mortal_; we call it "mortification," using the same expression which we should apply to a gangrenous and incurable bodily hurt. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• They might long regard you as a persecuted patriot.... But your imprudence or your vanity has been the means of completely unmasking and placing you before the people of this country in all the naked deformity of an acknowledged traitor. —  The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion

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