Vanity Reigns Over All Creation!

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 A Traveller said, "Ah, how bright the sun is!"

A glow-worm, close by, said, "it is always a quality of our race."

"What do you mean, you impudent little thing?" said the traveller.

The glow-worm replied, "Why, I mean that brightness is ever a quality of the class to which I, the sun, the moon, the stars, and other shining bodies belong!"

"Ah," said the traveler, "vanity reigns over all creation!"

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