to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
Fanny Burneythe mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
Fanny BurneyWhile all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.
Fanny BurneyHow truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
Fanny Burney