It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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