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Fanny Burney
English
Novelist
About the author
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
Fanny Burney,
English
Novelist
#Sorrow
#Sleep
#Joy
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Fanny Burney,
English
Novelist
#May
#Mankind
In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
Fanny Burney,
English
Novelist
#Family
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
Fanny Burney,
English
Novelist
#Building
#Ruin
#Traveling
#Italy
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
Fanny Burney,
English
Novelist
#Judgment
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,
English
Novelist
#Time
#Friends
#Mind
#Acquaintance
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
Fanny Burney,
English
Novelist
#Nothing