It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles.

• 在人类的一生中虚荣心影响之大是怎么夸张也不会过分的，从三岁的稚子到蹙眉震天下的君主无一例外。