What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
JANE AUSTENVanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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