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Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
Fanny Burney
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This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.
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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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Childhood is never troubled with foresight.
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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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In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.
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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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I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.
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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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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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Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
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while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
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it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
Fanny Burney
O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
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To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.
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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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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
Fanny Burney
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
Fanny Burney
Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
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