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 AUSTENWith women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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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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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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The less said the better.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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