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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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A private ball this was called... but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!

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'Do you come to the play without knowing what it is?' 'O yes, Sir, yes, very frequently; I have no time to read play-bills; one merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.'

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Frances Burney

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