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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."
• "angry people are not always wise."
• "there is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. my courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
• "the more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
• "a lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment."
• "nothing is more deceitful…than the appearance of humility. it is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
• "but people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever."
• "think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."