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Frances Burney on Women

1752–1840 England

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Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

Evelina (1778)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frances Burney (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.