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.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

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“You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.”

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

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“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

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“The sooner every party breaks up, the better.”

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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

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“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”

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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”

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