Pride and Prejudice
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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation.
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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
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People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
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Jane Austen
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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