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)

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

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