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Pride and Prejudice

Chapter 5
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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." "If I were as rich as Mr.Darcy," cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, "I should not care how proud I was.

I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day." "Then you would drink a great deal more than you ought," said Mrs.
Bennet; "and if I were to see you at it, I should take away your bottle directly." The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit..


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