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 AUSTENTo be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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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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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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