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 AUSTENSelfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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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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I must have my share in the conversation.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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