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while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
Fanny Burney
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The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!
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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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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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To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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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 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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Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
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an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance
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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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We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
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You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.
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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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I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.
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