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"Vanity" is a popular song. The music was written by Guy Wood, the lyrics by Jack Manus and Bernard Bierman. The song was published in 1951. It had some success on the charts, reaching the top 20, in 1951 and was recorded by Don Cherry, who had recorded the hit version, for his 1968 album, There Goes My Everything. The original 1951 recording by Don Cherry was released by Decca Records as catalog number 27618. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on July 20, 1951, and lasted 11 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 17. Jazz tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath recorded an instrumental version for his 1964 album On the Trail.

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“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”
— Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818), Ch. 1.
“… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?”
— Pope Francis, General Audience of 23 April 2014 in Rome (23 April 2014).
“Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth;...”
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill (1837): Vol II, Chapter 28.
“By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. And, did we even see this, how can we make the difference? How obtain the interest which society declares she does not want, and we cannot want?”
— Florence Nightingale, Cassandra (1860).
“Vanity, like laudanum, and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man, who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.”
— Frederick Saunders, Salad for the Social (New York: De Witt & Davenport, 1856), "The Toilet and Its Devotees", p. 133.
“Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'être.”
— It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

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“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”
— Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818), Ch. 1.
“… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?”
— Pope Francis, General Audience of 23 April 2014 in Rome (23 April 2014).
“Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth;...”
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill (1837): Vol II, Chapter 28.
“By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. And, did we even see this, how can we make the difference? How obtain the interest which society declares she does not want, and we cannot want?”
— Florence Nightingale, Cassandra (1860).
“Vanity, like laudanum, and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man, who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.”
— Frederick Saunders, Salad for the Social (New York: De Witt & Davenport, 1856), "The Toilet and Its Devotees", p. 133.
“Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'être.”
— It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

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