vainness

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Shakespeare says:— 'I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood.'

From The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Woodcock, Henry

O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men!

From The Book of Mormon by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

What is a life in vainness spent, That will not bear the common test, When, laid to rest In earth's cold breast, We sleep at last, insentient?

From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by Pickering, James E.

It was become such a world as did not seem worth a man's while to live in: a world of vainness, of hollowness, of meanness, of nothing but illusions.

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael

It was as though the love letter of Juliet had led her here to show her as in a glass darkly the vainness of love in the vainness of life.

From The Ghost Girl by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)