"How little has situation to do with happiness.……" — Fanny Burney
"How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!"
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Fanny Burney
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27 Quotes by Fanny Burney
Fanny Burney has 27 quotes on this site.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A…
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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they…
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There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to…
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be…
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
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To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion…
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Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
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