Frances Burney - Cecilia (1782)

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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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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

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

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

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An old woman... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

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

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

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'The whole of this unfortunate business,' said Dr Lyster, 'has been the result of pride and prejudice.'

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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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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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He seemed to consider his own home merely as an hotel, where at any hour of the night he might disturb the family to claim admittance, where letters and messages might be left for him; where he dined when no other dinner was offered him, and where, when he made an appointment, he was to be met with.

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

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