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Display – artifice – deception –
trickery – "Tell or hear some new thing" –
Castle building – fancy scheming
&c. [etc.] – What do the become – but
any nothings? – Visionaries – fortune-
hunters – proud – conceited – supercilious
unbearable – sinful – next wicked ~

"The Thought of foolishness is Sin."
"How long shall vain thoughts lodge in thee"?
"The L. [Lord] knoweth t. [the] thots [thoughts] of man that they are vanity."
I hate vain tho'ts [thoughts] – but thy law do I love ~

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2 Selfish Thoughts. Always I
& me uppermost – all centers here.
Cant [Can't] relieve a beggar without thinking
how it will effect me. An item
of intelligence – –. Whatever
occurs his first thought how can
I profit by it? – manage to get something?