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 AUSTENThe enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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I can always live by my pen.
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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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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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