Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTENSelfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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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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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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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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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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