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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

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He said, 'Madam—may I presume?'—and stopped, offering to take my hand. I... could scarce forbear laughing. 'Allow me, Madam,' continuing he, affectedly breaking off every half moment, 'the honour and happiness... the happiness and honor...'

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How little has situation to do with happiness!

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Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

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Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Frances Burney

Frances Burney
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Born: June 13, 1752
Died: January 6, 1840 (aged 87)
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