886 – “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.”

–Mary Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Quote Number:  846

Source: Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Donald Gray, editor. Norton & Company: New York. 2001. Pg. 14.

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