Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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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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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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