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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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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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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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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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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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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