Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
JANE AUSTENVanity 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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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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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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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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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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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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