I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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