Frances Burney Short Quotes

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I'd do it as soon as say Jack Robinson.

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Credulity is the sister of innocence...

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But authors before they write should read.

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How little has situation to do with happiness!

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Falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

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I cannot sleep — great joy is as restless as sorrow.

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A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

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'You are rich,' he cried; 'are you therefore worthless?'

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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

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O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
Of a wedding

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While we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

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

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.. men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

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The freedom with which Dr Johnson condemns whatever he disapproves is astonishing.

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She knows nothing of business, and is made to pay for everything through the nose.

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Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

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Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

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It has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

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

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Such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarrassment.

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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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It's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

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Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

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To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

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