| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22979 |
| QUOTATION: | Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), U.S. statesman, writer. Autobiography, ch. 1 (1868). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Franklin Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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