You expect me to account for opinions which you chuse to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
We do not suffer by accident.
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
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.
To yield readily – easily – to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.
The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do.
