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“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
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Verse 2. Vanities. Most vain and despicable, ( Calmet.) and frustrating the expectations of men. Menochius.—Saint 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. Ret. i. 7.
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