There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Vanity
Quotations by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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