"Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonimously. 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 "
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There are very few people I truly love; There are even fewer people I respect. The more I get to know the world, the more dissatisfied I become; Every day my belief in the inconsistency of human character grows stronger and that even those who seem intelligent and feeling cannot be trusted.