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 AUSTENA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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I can always live by my pen.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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