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 AUSTENI do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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Time will explain.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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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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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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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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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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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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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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Angry people are not always wise.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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