Fanny Burney Quotes - Page 4

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• The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!

  Fanny Burney

  Time, Hate, Sacrifice

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• the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

  Fanny Burney

  Mind, Ridiculous, Repetition

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.301, Delphi Classics

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• The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

  Fanny Burney

  Spring, Acquaintance, New Acquaintances

  Fanny Burney (1907). “The Early diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney”

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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

  Fanny Burney

  Character, Wish, Behaviour

  "The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney", vol. 1, p. 8, 1768.

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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

  Fanny Burney

  Air, People, Together

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3768, Delphi Classics

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