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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

~Fanny Burney

Topics: After Building Happiness Italy Looking Ruin Seeing Traveling

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

~Fanny Burney

Topics: Am Ashamed Confess Nothing I Am

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

~Fanny Burney

Topics: Beneficial Despise Dispense Indeed Mankind May More Must Philosophic Riches Surely Them

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

~Fanny Burney

Topics: Cannot Great Great Joy Joy Restless Sleep Sorrow

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

~Fanny Burney

Topics: Conduct Judgment Neither Never Older Tired Young

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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.

~Fanny Burney

Topics: About Acquaintance Alive Confess Finding Friends Listen Looking Meet Merely Mind Much No Time Out Part Players Really Seldom Show Stage Time

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In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

~Fanny Burney

Topics: Bosom Family Her Respectable

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: June 13th, 1752

Died: January 6th, 1840

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