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falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

Fanny Burney

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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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such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
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A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
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Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
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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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to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
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I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.
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