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 AUSTENHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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Time will explain.
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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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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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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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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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The less said the better.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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