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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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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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To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!
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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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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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it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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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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while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
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