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Fanny Burney Quotes: Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
         

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


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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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I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.



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Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.



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