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 AUSTENNobody minds having what is too good for them.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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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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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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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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I can always live by my pen.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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