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.

Quote by Jane Austen

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the...

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now...

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There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...

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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as...

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being...

If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being...

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God is living in the circle of eternity, and we the [straight] line cut from...

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their...

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their...