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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, _x000D_Brags of his substance, not of ornament: _x000D_They are but beggars that can count their worth; _x000D_But my true love is grown to such excess, _x000D_I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good.

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?

[The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO.