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Baruch Spinoza Quotes: It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
         

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.


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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
         



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