Fanny Burney Quotes About Pleasure

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

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  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

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  Fanny Burney (2011). “Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World”, p.22, The Floating Press

  2006

• I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

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  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

  1800

• We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

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  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics

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• Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

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  "Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World".

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