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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.
My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.
What are men to rocks and mountains?
And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
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But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.
