Frances Burney - Camilla (1796)

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It's a delightful thing to think of perfection; but it's vastly more amusing to talk of errors and absurdities.

Frances Burney
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.

Frances Burney
There is nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! a friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

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A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

Frances Burney
The cure of a romantic first flame is a better surety to subsequent discretion, than all the exhortations of all the fathers, and mothers, and guardians, and maiden aunts in the universe.

Frances Burney
Vice is detestable; I banish all its appearances from my coteries; and I would banish its reality, too, were I sure I should then have any thing but empty chairs in my drawing-room.

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O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgement passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

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No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

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

Frances Burney
The play of imagination, in the romance of early youth, is rarely interrupted with scruples of probability.

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

Frances Burney