Frances Burney - Pleasure Quotes

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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

Frances Burney

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

Frances Burney

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

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When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

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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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