Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
Fanny BurneyGenerosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
Fanny Burney... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.
Fanny Burney