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“and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
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.”
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
“And your defect is to hate everybody.”
“Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility.”
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.
“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare. She is almost three-and-twenty!
Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty!
