To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
More Quotes from Fanny Burney:
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
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
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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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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
Fanny Burney
. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
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