Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Vanities. Most vain and despicable, (Calmet) and frustrating the expectations of men. (Menochius)
St. Augustine reads vanitantium, and infers that this vanity of sublunary things is an effect of man's sin. Yet he afterwards discovered that he had read incorrectly. (Retractions i. 7.)