Novel Sort of Pain

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.

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

I cannot imagine that it could be any where pleasant to a female, than in the society of one of her own sex, who had been educated sufficiently to feel the value of a superior woman.

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice