Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
JANE AUSTENVanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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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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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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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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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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