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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…
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
- The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may…
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness…
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of…
- He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
- The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her…
- Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face…
- Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint…
- There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more…
- I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You…
- Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much,…
- When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and…
- Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that…
- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a…
- If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more…
- Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the…
- It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that…
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
- Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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