English - Novelist | June 13, 1752 - January 6, 1840
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!
Frances Burney
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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
HappinessTravelBuildingLooking
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
I AmNothingAshamedConfessAm
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
MoreMankindMayMustThemDespise
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
GreatSleepJoySorrowRestless
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
TiredYoungNeverJudgmentOlder
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.
TimeMindLookingFriendsFinding
In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
FamilyHerRespectableBosom
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.
TruthHistoryWishAppearanceI Wish
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.
AgeRespectMeEarthCreateMore
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
MindPleasureTooProneNaturally
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.
LiveTogetherPeopleLooksAir
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