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.
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.
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
What dreadful hot weather we have!† It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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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