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We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

Fanny Burney

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I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.
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