Friday, February 25

"Pride is a very common failing. I believe by all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that they are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and Pride are different things, though the words are often used synonimously. A person maybe proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." - Miss Mary Lucas

quoted from Pride & Prejudice, Chapter 3 by Jane Austen.

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