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“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.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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