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 there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. 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.

If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.