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Genre Group Read (Humour) - December 2016 - You Are Not So Smart
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"Pride is a very common failing I believe... human nature is particularly prone to it, and there 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 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." [p36]
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Revisiting this book again this time on the audio book through libriVox. So far I still find it hard to understand. I want to relisten to it and then I have a bunch of copies of the movie to watch through both Netflix and in my personal dvd collection. 11/20/14
I didn't find this one as enjoyable a read as some of my other favorite classics. It was difficult jumping between the cliff note interpretations and the actual story. I'm currently watching a few versions of the movies to see how they com ...more
I didn't find this one as enjoyable a read as some of my other favorite classics. It was difficult jumping between the cliff note interpretations and the actual story. I'm currently watching a few versions of the movies to see how they com ...more

One of Austen's best novels. A witty but telling look at British society during this period.
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