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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.

— Frances Burney Evelina (1778)

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

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Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind.

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Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

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