It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
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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.Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
Read the saying and check its sourcesI could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
Read the saying and check its sourcesFor what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
Read the saying and check its sources. . . resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
Read the saying and check its sourcesNext to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
Read the saying and check its sourcesIt is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
Read the saying and check its sourcesA lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
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