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

Frances Burney

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To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!

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

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

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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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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

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

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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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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

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In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

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There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.

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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

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