By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it 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.”
— “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.