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it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
Fanny Burney
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I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.
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How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
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the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.
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. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
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Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!
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Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!
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But authors before they write should read.
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To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
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The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.
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Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.
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Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
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A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
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don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.
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to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
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Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
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while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
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O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
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