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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.

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I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

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Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

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It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

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I should not mind anything at all.

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I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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