Vanity 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.
JANE AUSTENWisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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I can always live by my pen.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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