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. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.


Fanny Burney

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unless it...
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FANNY BURNEY I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow
FANNY BURNEY A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
FANNY BURNEY I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
FANNY BURNEY For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and f...
FANNY BURNEY But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
FANNY BURNEY To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more b...
FANNY BURNEY I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
FANNY BURNEY There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
FANNY BURNEY For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and f...
FANNY BURNEY Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
FANNY BURNEY Indeed, the freedom with which Dr Johnson condemns whatever he disapproves is astonishing.
FANNY BURNEY . . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
FANNY BURNEY Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
FANNY BURNEY I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow
FANNY BURNEY A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
FANNY BURNEY Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
FANNY BURNEY Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
FRANCES BURNEY There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect...
FRANCES BURNEY I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history ...
FRANCES BURNEY We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't a...
FRANCES BURNEY The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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FRANCES BURNEY To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I r...
FRANCES BURNEY A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment...
FRANCES BURNEY Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, u...
CHARLES BURNEY Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until...
CHARLES BURNEY I've been in their shoes, and it's hard. It's great to see somebody at least have that opportunity.
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BURNEY LAMAR Actually, I was just happy to finish a Busch race. That was actually the first one I ever finished.
BURNEY LAMAR You can say I'm crazy, but three years ago, I was at home on the couch watching races like this.
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KNEKO BURNEY Five years from now, if very large companies like IBM and AT&T continue to design strategic Internet...
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FANNY HOWE I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
FANNY KEMBLE Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own t...
FANNY KEMBLE Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglect...
FANNY KEMBLE In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretche...
FANNY KEMBLE I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill...
FANNY KEMBLE The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous ...
FANNY KEMBLE The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some deg...
FANNY KEMBLE But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free lab...
FANNY KEMBLE The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful t...
FANNY KEMBLE The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
FANNY KEMBLE A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these ...
FANNY KEMBLE I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such...
FANNY KEMBLE I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and...
FANNY KEMBLE I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
FANNY KEMBLE Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
FANNY KEMBLE I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good s...
FANNY HOWE My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the post...
FANNY HOWE If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A reco...
FANNY HOWE I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stan...
FANNY HOWE The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
FANNY CROSBY Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
FANNY CROSBY Wrong is for other people.
FANNY BRICE Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
FANNY BRICE I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
FANNY BRICE Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
FANNY BRICE Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you ...
FANNY BRICE Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
FANNY CROSBY Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with ...
FANNY BRICE Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you a...
FANNY BRICE Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less...
FANNY BRICE Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious w...
FANNY BRICE Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be-because sooner or later, if you're...
FANNY BRICE Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you a...
FANNY BRICE I'm a bad woman, butI'm damn good company
FANNY BRICE Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with ...
FANNY BRICE Referees should only pretend to fall for the bait, but make sure the result doesn't favor those offe...
FANNY AMUN I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that...
FANNY FERN When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor ...
FANNY BRICE I'm a bad woman, but
I'm damn good company
FANNY BRICE After I lost my father, I thought I couldn't do this without him.
FANNY HARVEY He was there for everyone, and he would help till the ends of the earth. I would never change a thin...
FANNY HARVEY My father retired, and I took a job as a physical therapy aide. After five years, he got better. He ...
FANNY HARVEY Oh, what a happy child I am, although I cannot see! I am resolved that in this world, contented I wi...
FANNY CROSBY When I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.
FANNY CROSBY This is my story, this is my Song,/ Praising my Savior, all the day long.
FANNY CROSBY We know match officials are offered money or anything to influence matches and they can accept it.
FANNY AMUN Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy ro...
FANNY KELLY But times were harsh and people were glad of the opportunity to celebrate anything. It made me proud...
FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN I remember thinking how strange that I had made so many people happy,
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FANNY DIXWELL HOLMES What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER) His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet, ...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER) The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
SARA PAYSON SARA PAYSON WILLIS PARTON USED PSEUDONYM FANNY FERN The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
SARA PAYSON (SARA PAYSON WILLIS PARTON) (USED PSEUDONYM FANNY FERN)