Analects of the Core: Austen on vanity and pride

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.

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 5. Lynn Festa will be lecturing to the students of CC202 on P&P, this coming Tuesday.

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