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“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
“Angry people are not always wise.”
“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.”
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
