A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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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Almost anything is possible with time.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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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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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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