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，从三岁幼童到皱皱眉就震动天下的君主无一例外。