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 AUSTENI could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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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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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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